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Rock 'n' Roll (Ike Turner)
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner, Jr. was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. Turner began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm, as a teenager. Allegations by Tina Turner of domestic violence by Ike, damaged Ike Turner's career in the 1980s and 1990s. -
Rock 'n' Roll (Little Richard)
Richard Wayne Penniman was born on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia, Little Richard helped define the early rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with his driving, flamboyant sound. -
Rock 'n' Roll (Elvis)
Makes Rock & Roll a phenomenon was born extremely poor. Adopted rhythm & blues from African Americans. Created his own "sexually" suggestive dance style. Became the “The King of Rock 'n' Roll”. -
G.I Bill
Also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, sought to provided a range of benefits from returning veterans from the war. Around 8.8 million veterans used the bill to help their studies where 2.2 million when to college and the rest went to a training program. -
Trinity Test
The Trinity Test was the name given to the first nuclear weapon detonated. It was part of a test conducted by the U.S. during the Manhattan Project and was detonated on July 16, 1945 and allowed for the continued advancement of nuclear weapons and subsequent detonations. -
Korean War (38th parallel established as border)
August 1945, the 38th parallel was established. The boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Little Boy
This was the codename for the atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, by the U.S. during the ending phases of World War II. -
Fat Man
This was the codename for the atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945, by the U.S. during the ending phases of World War II. -
Iron Curtain
This was a speech given by Winston Churchill at Westminster College about how an 'iron curtain' had fallen across Europe between the capitalist and communist countries. This marked the beginning of the Cold War. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a mixture of a nuclear arms race and series of Proxy Wars between the USSR and the US. This was mainly a fight between communism and capitalism as the two superpowers intervened in many countries to set up their own governments to run the country. -
Truman Doctrine
This policy was created to counter the Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Truman established that the U.S. would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations who were under threat from authoritarian forces (aka the Soviets). -
Marshall plan
On this day, President Truman placed into effect the Marshall Plan. This plan was devised by George Marshall and it was done to offer loans to rebuild Europe, restores Western Europe’s faith in capitalism, and spreads American labor, farming, and manufacturing practices to Western Europe. It is important because of the Marshall Plan, it aides the US in trying to keep the world from becoming fully communism. -
Berlin Airlift
After the second World War, the Soviets and Allied forces were peacefully vying for Berlin. As the Soviets controlled all the land around Berlin, they cut off all travel to Allied Berlin. This was solved as the United States and the United Kingdom began airlifting food into Berlin from Western Germany. Stalin reopens the border. -
The Fair Deal
Set into effect by Truman it focused on healthcare, public housing, education & public works. Increased the minimum wage, electricity and telephone access and was forced to scale back because of Korea and fighting the communist world -
Television (TV Shows)
When TV became popular in the 1950s, Tv shows began to be produced to shows that related to traditional family values and "adventure". A few of the shows were "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet", "I Love Lucy" and "Leave it to Beaver". -
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Civil rights
The 1950s & 1960s were a huge game changer for Civil Rights. The movement witnessed great success as well as great failures, as both blacks and whites fought back both violently and nonviolently against oppression. -
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1950s
The 1950s were a period of change. The age of rock and roll began during this time, along with the power of television emerged, along with huge advance in medicine concerning vaccines. -
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation is a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. Central elements of Beat culture are a rejection of standard narrative values, spiritual quest, exploration of American and Eastern religions, rejection of materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. -
Korean War (China comes into war)
UN forces were about to capture the North Korean capital, President Truman was concerned that MacArthur’s move into North Korea would provoke Communist China to enter the war. However, MacArthur ignored the Chinese threats to intervene, even though they had an abundant of troops on the Korean border. The same day, the Communist government in Beijing announced that China wouldn’t stand by and not help North Korea. -
2nd Red Scare (McCarhyism)
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents. -
Rock 'n' Roll (Bill Haley and the Comets)
Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band, founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. Bill Haley and the Comets was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of America and the rest of the world. -
Polio Vaccine (Dr. Jonas Salk)
Dr. Jonas Salk was was an American medical researcher who developed the first polio vaccine on March 26, 1953 and was able to help nearly fully eradicate the crippling disease with his creation. -
Earl Warren Supreme Court
Earl Warren is best known for the liberal decisions of the so-called Warren Court, which outlawed segregation in public schools and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayers, and requiring "one man–one vote" rules of apportionment of election districts. Brown v. Board of Education -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Emmet Till Tragedy
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks)
Rosa Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, who the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also Congress's show of support for the Supreme Court's Brown decisions, the Brown v. Board of Education, which had eventually led to the integration of public schools. Violence against blacks rose there and in other states, as in Little Rock, Arkansas where that year President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered in federal troops to protect nine children integrating into a public school. -
Little Rock 9 (Orvaul Faubus)
Orval Eugene Faubus served six consecutive terms as governor of Arkansas. His stand against what he called “forced integration” resulted in President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s sending federal troops to Little Rock. In September 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval E. Faubus became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black students who had been ordered by a federal judge to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School. -
Vietnam War (Ho Chi Minh Trail
Was a logical trail that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam. This trail provided support for the Vietcong throughout the war. -
The New Right
The NEW RIGHT was a combination of Christian religious leaders, conservative business bigwigs who claimed that environmental and labor regulations were undermining the competitiveness of American firms in the global market, and fringe political groups. Like most movements, the New Right contained an extremist element. Racial hatred groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the AMERICAN NAZI PARTY joined the outcry against American moral decline. -
Stagflation
During the 60's and 70's, the U.S. was suffering from 5.3% inflation and 6% unemployment. Refers to the unusual economic situation in which an economy is suffering both from inflation and from stagnation of its industrial growth. -
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1960s
The 1960s saw many significant events including the assassination of a president and also the rise of one of the greatest counter cultures in history, the successors to the proto-hippies, the hippies. -
Counter Culture (LSD)
As LSD became available for recreational use, it started to gain a massive reputation as a magic pill for a direct spiritual experience. This dovetailed perfectly with the radical questioning of government and social norms that was prevalent in the 1960s. As LSD became synonymous with hippies and the countercultural movement, it quickly earned a stigma in the rest of society. -
Sit-Ins (Greensboro, North Carolina)
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement. -
New Frontier
The term New Frontier was used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. This dealth with the Economy, Taxation, Labor, Education, Welfare, Civil rights, Housing, Unemployment, Health, Equal rights for women, Environment, Agriculture, Crime Defense -
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a group consisting of 12 of the world's major oil-exporting nations. OPEC was founded in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid. OPEC is a cartel that aims to manage the supply of oil in an effort to set the price of oil on the world market, in order to avoid fluctuations that might affect the economies of both producing and purchasing countries. -
Television (Politics)
Television swept the nation during the 1950s, this was the game changer during the 1960 election for the president of the U.S. Nixon and Kennedy were the running mates during the election where many knew Kennedy was winning by the way he presented himself on TV. -
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. The work is generally related to social and economic development. -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Bay of Pigs)
A failed military invasion of Cuba executed by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group brigade 2506. It was intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. -
Atomic/Hydrogen Weapons (ICBMs)
An intercontinental ballistic missile is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 3,400 miles primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery. Similarly, conventional, chemical, and biological weapons can also be delivered with varying effectiveness, but have never been deployed on ICBMs. Most modern designs support multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), allowing a single missile to carry several warheads, each of which can strike a different target. -
March on Washington ("I Have a Dream Speech")
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Assassination of JFK (Lee Harvey Oswald)
Lee Harvey Oswald was an American former U.S. Marine who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. According to four Federal government investigations and one municipal investigation, Oswald shot and killed Kennedy as the President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in the city of Dallas, Texas. -
Assassination of JFK (Warren Commission)
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 196 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963. The Commission's findings have proven controversial and have been both challenged and supported by later studies. -
Counter Culture (Anti-War Movement)
An anti-war movement is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
Ascendency of Lyndon Johnson (Daisy Girl Ad)
Daisy Girl was a controversial political advertisement aired on television during the 1964 United States presidential election by incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign. Though only aired once, it is considered to be an important factor in Johnson's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater and an important turning point in political and advertising history. -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. The major areas this policy dealt with is Civil rights, War on Poverty, Programs, Education, Health, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Public broadcasting, Cultural centers, Transportation, Consumer protection, Environment, Housing, Rural development, Labor, Conservative opposition -
Counter Culture (Hippies)
The counter culture was a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm. Hippies were famous for their drug use and opposing the war. "Love not war". -
Death Of MLK
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities. James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped fugitive, later confessed to the crime and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term. -
Warren Burger Supreme Court
Warren Earl Burger was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger was a conservative, and the U.S. Supreme Court delivered numerous conservative decisions under him, it also delivered some liberal decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation during his tenure. -
Stonewall Riot
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in Manhattan, New York City. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight to land two people on the moon (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) on July 20, 1969. This was an expedition made by the U.S. in an effort to beat the Soviets in the space race. -
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1970s
The 70s saw many scandelest activites as well as many major economic events involving other foreign countries other than the United States -
Nixon's Presidency (Watergate)
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis. -
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership. Heritage has since continued to have a significant influence in U.S. public policy making, and is considered to be one of the most influential conservative research organizations in the United States. -
Gerald Ford's Presidency
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, following the resignation of Richard Nixon. He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and subsequently the only person to date to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to executive office. -
Jimmy Carter's Presidency (Equal Rights Amendment)
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for all citizens regardless of gender; it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. Congress had originally set a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979. Through 1977, the amendment received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. -
The Moral Majority
he Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s. -
Jimmy Carter's Presidenct (Iran Hostage Crisis)
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981 after a group of Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. It stands as the longest hostage crisis in recorded history. -
Soviet-Afghan War
Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, where insurgent groups like the mujahideen fought against the Soviets and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Between 562,000–2 million civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees, mostly to Pakistan and Iran. -
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1980s
The 80's saw the country as well as the world become more recognizable from today's standards as "modern" -
Robert Johnson
Johnson in 1979 created the Black Entertainment Television(BET), the first cable television network aimed at African-Americans.BET first turned a profit in 1985 and it became the first black-controlled company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1991. -
Video Head System (VHS)
In the 1970s, videotape entered home use, creating the home video industry. In the 1980s and 1990s, at the peak of VHS's popularity, there were videotape format wars in the home video industry. Two of the formats, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure. VHS eventually won the war, dominating 60 percent of the North American market by 1980 and emerging as the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period. -
Reagonomics
It was the economic policies of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity. -
A.I.D.S. Crisis
The epidemic of the immunodeficiency disease AIDS, which began in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1930s as a mutation of the chimpanzee disease SIV, which was named HIV found its way to the shores of the United States as early as 1960, but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. It spread across the country like wild fire and kill thousands of Americans. -
Home video game systems
The 80's saw a rise in home gaming systems for families to share with the reveal of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genisis -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Reagan Doctrine
Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "roll back" Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. -
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. It began in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan's administration supplied weapons to Iran in hopes of securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by Hezbollah terrorists loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's leader. -
Discount Retailing
during the late 1980s, discount stores were more popular than the average supermarket or department store in the United States. There were hundreds of discount stores in operation. In the U.S. with discount store chains such as Kmart, Ames, Two Guys, E. J. Korvette, Mammoth Mart, Fisher's Big Wheel, Zayre, Bradlees, Caldor, Jamesway, Wal-Mart, they were readily available on every corner -
Challenger Explosion
On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster failed at liftoff -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded barrier wall made of concrete that physically and socially divided Berlin from starting from the Cold War till 1989. It finally came to an end when the wall was demolished in late 1989 after weeks of rioting between the two sides. -
Affordable cell phones
While the cell phone was invented in the 1970s, it wasn't until the 1990s that they became more practical in size, and could be afforded by many so thus began to gain popularity. Through the early 1990s, cell phones mainly functioned for business. However, this was also a time when cell phone companies began to market their products toward the general public. This was the beginning of a significant change in consumerism within the telephone industry. -
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1990s
The 90's saw many advancements in technology as well as wartime affairs in the middle east -
1st Iraq War
Also referred to as the "Operation Iraqi Freedom," the Gulf War started when the Iraqi Army occupied Kuwait in August 2, 1990. President George H.W. Bush deployed forces in Saudi Arabia and also urged other countries to also deploy troops. This was the largest coalition since WWII. -
Online Gaming
Online Gaming emerged around the same time the internet was commercialized. in 1990, Sega launched the first online multiplayer gaming service, Meganet for the Sega Genesis gaming console. Online gaming continues to be popular to this day. -
Rodney King Incident
Rodney King, was a taxi driver who was beaten by the police after a high-speed car chase. A witness, George Holiday, recorded the incident and sent it to the news and the footage was broadcasted around the world. This raised public concern about how the U.S treats its minorities -
Internet
The internet originally began development in the 1950s in research laboratories with the initial concepts of packet networking. The internet was only used, before the 90s, in government buildings or in universities for studying. The internet was made commercial in 1991. -
Election of 1992
This was the 52nd presidential election. There were three major candidates, democrat Bill Clinton, Republican George H. W. Bush, and independent party Ross Perot. This resulted in the election of Bill Clinton and he will run for two terms. -
1993 World Trade Center bombing
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower that was intended to topple the North Tower into the South Tower killing thousands of people. -
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
NAFTA is a trade deal signed by Canada, Mexico, and The United States creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. Has two major supplements, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation,(NAAEC) an agreement to protect the environment, and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation,(NAALC) aimed to improve the working conditions in North America. -
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy
"Don't ask, don't tell" was the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994. It states that one is not allowed to ask a soldiers sexual preference. -
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was a United States federal law that defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states -
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Contemporary
Today's world as we know it. This era includes all of the most recent events in american history -
Election of 2000
The election of 2000 was between Republican George W. Bush (George H.W. Bush's son) and Democratic candidate Al Gore, the Vice President at the time. -
Al Gore
Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948. He was the 45th Vice President from 1993 to 2001, under Bill Clinton. He was also the democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election, but was beaten by George W. Bush. -
Bush v. Gore
This court case was between presidential candidates Gore and Bush. This ended with the Florida Supreme Court's law declaring that making new election laws to recount after they have been counted once is unconstitutional. It gave bush the presidency after gore had "won" the majority of the vote. -
George W. Bush
George W. Bush was born on July 6, 1946. He was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995. He faced Al Gore in the 2000 election as the Republican candidate. -
9/11 Attacks
The September 11th attacks were executed by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, lead by Osama Bin-Laden. This event involved the hijacking of four planes, two hitting the World Trade Center, one hitting the Pentagon, and one crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. 2,996 people were killed, and 6,000 people were injured. -
USA PATRIOT Act
The USA PATRIOT Act was signed in response to the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. The full name is, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. The Act allowed the monitoring of Americans through any means necessary if they are a threat to national security. -
No Child Left Behind Education Act
The purpose of this act was to provide all children with a good and fair opportunity to get a high-quality education. The four pillars of the act are accountability, flexibility, research-based education and parent options. -
2nd Iraq War
The Iraq war started with the invasion of Iraq led by the United States that eventually led to the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for the next decade as insurgent forces began to rise to combat the occupying force. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961. He was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 until 2017. He was the first African-American president. He also served in the U.S. Senate with the state of Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and the State Senate from 1997 to 2004. -
Election of 2008
This election was between republican John McCain and democrat Barack Obama.This election resulted in the first ever African-American President being elected
