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Robert Johnson
as an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's shadowy and poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend. One Faustian myth says that he sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads of Mississippi highways to achieve success. -
G.I. Bill
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. Benefits such as established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. -
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Atomic/Hydrogen Weapons
The Manhattan Project was the name for the research and the development program for the atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb named Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The explosion was huge, the city was destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were killed. An atomic bomb occurs when an atom is separated and a hydrogen bomb is when hydrogen and helium are pressured in together to make an explosion. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron curtain term came from a long speech that Winston Churchill gave on March of 1946. And it is used to reference the boundary line that divided Europe in two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold war. The eastern part of Europe was under the control and influence of the soviet union and the western side lived in political freedom. -
The Marshall Plan
The United States came up with the Marshall Plan because they wanted to help Europe recover from the war. It got its name after the secretary of state George Marshall. This plan offered finances and help to European countries so they can recover from World War II. Western European countries received about $13 billion in assistance by the US over four years because of the plan. The picture above shows a label that was placed on items provided by the Marshall Plan. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. President Harry S. Truman first announced it to congress on March 12, 1947 but was developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledge to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was born in November 15, 1908 and died in May 2, 1957. He was a United States Republican Senator form the state of Wisconsin. He is famous for lending his name to McCarthyism, the period of intense anti-communism that occurred in America from the 1948 to the mid 1950s. -
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North Korea invades South Korea
Armed forces from the communist North Korea brutally invaded South Korea which lead to the bloody Korean War. The United States quickly went to the help of South Korea. -
Television
Television struggled to become a national mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. Before these two decades were over the three national networks were offering programs that were alternately earth shaking, sublime and ridiculousIn NBC, CBS and ABC – were "networks" in name only. All of the programming originated, live, in New York. The only way the networks had to distribute the shows to the rest of the nation was to point a film camera at a television screen and convert video to film. -
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. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s., William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature. -
Tv shows
The television in 1950 had networks such as NBC, CBS, and ABC and had several shows live in the networks. Shows like I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, The Ed Sullivan, Father Knows Best, Texaco Star Theatre, Leave it to Beaver, Kraft Television and much more -
Eisenhower's Election
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in October 14, 1890 and died March 28, 1969 he was the 34th president of the United States. He served as president in 1953 to 1961 and his vice president was Richard M. Nixon and he was a republican. He is best known for being a supreme commander of Allied forces during the WWII during his two terms as president the country experienced economic prosperity and peace. -
Fair Deal
The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. More generally the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953. -
Earl Warren
Earl Warren was elected California governor in 1942, Warren secured major reform legislation during his three terms in office. After failing to claim the Republican nomination for the presidency, he was appointed the 14th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1953. The landmark case of his tenure was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), in which the Court unanimously determined the segregation of schools to be unconstitutional. -
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Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court rules on the case of Brown v. Board of Education agreeing that segregation is unconstitutional meaning it is not in accordance to the constitutions laws , was a landmark United States in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Dr. Jonas Salk
In 1955, virologist Jonas Salk became a worldwide hero when he developed the first effective polio vaccine. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine.when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered one of the most frightening public health problems in the world. Polio is a deadly infectious disease. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade person’s brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis -
Emmett Till
He 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. Till posthumously became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Elvis Presley
He was a singer and actor born in January 8,1935 and died in August 16, 1977. Elvis signed a record deal with RCA Records. The album Elvis Presley went number one and also had his first number one hit with "Heartbreak Hotel." He was now one of the biggest stars in music. Elvis had a unique style of music and performance all his own. His music was a combination of country and gospel music. He also danced shaking his hips and many adults were shocked by his music & dancing. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War started in November 1, 1955 and ended in April 30, 1975 it was fought between communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam . The North was supported by communist countries like China and the Soviet Union. The South was supported by anti-communist countries like the United States. The war lasted 20 years and the United States lost the Vietnam. Not only did the US lose the war and the country of Vietnam to the communists, the US lost prestige in the eyes of the world. -
Albert Sabin
Albert Sabin a Polish American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease.Sabin and other researchers, most notably Jonas Salk in Pittsburgh and Hilary Korzybski and Herald Cox in New York City and Philadelphia, sought a vaccine to prevent or mitigate the illness. The Sabin vaccine is an oral vaccine containing weakened forms of strains of polio viruses. -
Little Richard
Little Richard is an American recording artist, songwriter, and musician. He is one of the early creators of rock and roll music in the 1950s. In 1951 Little Richard began his music career by making gospel and jazz influenced rhythm and blues. In 1957, when he was at his most popular point, Little Richard quit rock and roll music. He went to Bible college and became a church preacher. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S.four days before the boycott began Rosa Parks an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to be launched into the space,on October 4, 1957, this satellite weigh about 83 kg and it had two radio transmitters and it was launched by an R-7 rocket. It was the first of several satellites in the Soviet Unions Sputnik program, it was the start of a space race between the United States that finished with Apollo 11. Sputnik 1 fell back to earth on January 4,1958 -
Little Rock 9
was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Nixons Presidency
the 37th U.S. president, is best remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. Nixon stepped down in 1974, halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal. -
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Feminism
The feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s originally focused on dismantling workplace inequality, such as denial of access to better jobs and salary inequity, via anti-discrimination laws. ... As such, the different wings of the feminist movement sought women's equality on both a political and personal level. -
Sit Ins
four students from North Carolina A&T sit down at a "whites-only" Woolworth's lunch counter and ask to be served. This action by David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil ignites a wave of student sit-ins and protests that flash like fire across the South. Within days sit-ins are occurring in dozens of Southern towns, and in the North supporting picket- lines spring up at Woolworth and Kress stores from New York to San Francisco. -
LSD
LSD or "Acid" was popularized in the 1960s by individuals such as psychologist Timothy Leary, who encouraged American students to “turn on, tune in, and drop out.” This created an entire counterculture of drug abuse and spread the drug from America to the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. Even today, use of LSD in the United Kingdom is significantly higher than in other parts of the world -
Peace Corps
In 1960, John F. Kennedy, proposed to the University of Michigan, to help the developing countries, by promoting peace. He encouraged them to go to needy countries and give them aid, financially, educationally, and physically. This spurred an evolution in the form of volunteering around the world.Since 1960, 190,000 volunteers have been sent to 139 host countries that are in need of help; currently they are serving in 74 countries. -
OPEC
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. -
New Frontier
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. -
Anti-war Movement
An anti-war movement (also antiwar) 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. -
Counterculture
In the 1960s, youths rebelled against longstanding customs in dress, music, and personal behavior the counterculture both challenged traditional values and unleashed a movement to reassert basic values. they started to speak out about the goverment -
Freedom riders
In May, 1961, 13 Freedom Rider volunteers, seven black, six white, and nearly all young, were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to challenge state Jim Crow laws by riding buses together into the Deep South. Two buses set out to take them from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza.Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while he was riding with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission from November 1963 to September 1964 concluded without absolute proof that Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy, -
Warren commission
was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of United States President JFK that had taken place on November 22, 1963.The U.S. Congress passed Senate Joint Resolution 137 authorizing the Presidential appointed Commission to report on the assassination of President JFK, mandating the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence concerning the infraction occurring in Dallas -
The 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. Some of the programs were Medicare, Medicaid, Older American Act. -
Selma March
The Selma March was taken place in Montgomery, Alabama. Thousands of non-violent protest people led by Martin Luther King to the steps of the capitol of Alabama, that lasted 5-days and 54 miles where the SNCC and the SCLC had been campaigning for voting rights which progressed with mass arrests but little violence for the first month. That changed in Feb when police attacks against nonviolent demonstrators increased. -
Watts Riots
On August 11, 1965, an African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, and then escalated into a fight. The community reacted in outrage to allegations of police brutality that soon spread, and six days of looting and arson followed. the methods were Widespread rioting, looting, assault, arson, protests, firefights, property damage, murder there was a total of 34 deaths 1,032 injuries and 3,438 were arrested -
Death of MLK
King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39. -
Native Americans civil rights
Among the most difficult civil rights issues are those facing the nation's 2.5 million Native Americans. Federally recognized tribes are considered domestic dependent nations.Native Americans suffer from many of the same social and economic problems including, for example, disproportionately high rates of poverty, infant mortality, unemployment, and low high school completion rates. The struggle for equal employment and educational opportunity is key to addressing these problems. -
Apollo 11
A race was on with the Soviet Union to put a man on the moon. President Kennedy had challenged the nation. It was the mission of Apollo 11 to land two men on the moon, then return them safely to Earth. It was one of the most historic events. On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -
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Cesar Chavez
was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962.[2] Originally a Mexican American farm worker, Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, -
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is an agency of the Federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA and it began operation on December 2, 1970, -
Watergate Hotel
Built between 1963 and 1971, the Watergate was considered one of Washington's most desirable living spaces, popular with members of Congress and political appointees in the executive branch. In the 1990s, it was split up and its component buildings and parts of buildings were sold to various owners.In 1972, the Democratic National Committee, located on the sixth floor of the, was burglarized, documents were photographed, and telephones were wiretapped. -
Nixons Tapes
are audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff, produced between 1971 and 1973.The tapes' existence came to light during the Watergate scandal of 1973 and 1974, .Nixon's refusal of a congressional subpoena to release the tapes constituted an article of impeachment against Nixon, and led to his subsequent resignation on August 9, 1974. -
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is a key legislation for both domestic and international conservation. The act aims to provide a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats. -
Heritage Foundation
is a research and educational institute, popularly known as a "think tank," whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values, and a strong national defense. -
General Fords Presidency
took office on August 9, 1974, following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (1913-1994), who left the White House in disgrace over the Watergate scandal. Ford became the first unelected president in the nation's history. -
Jimmy Carter
He is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Governor of Georgia prior to his election as president. Carter has remained active in public life during his post-presidency, and in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. -
Three mile island
The Three Mile Island accident was caused by a nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
The Moral Majority
as 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. -
Iran Hostage crisis
This 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. -
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1980s
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Black Entertainment Television (BET)
an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom. It is the most prominent television network targeting African American audiences, with approximately 88,255,000 American households (75.8% of households with television) receiving the channel. The channel has offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago -
Home video game systems
is a video game device that is primarily used for home gamers, as opposed to in arcades or some other commercial establishment. Home consoles are one type of video game consoles, in contrast to the handheld game consoles which are smaller and portable, allowing people to carry them and play them at any time or place, along with microconsoles and dedicated consoles. -
Election of 1980
the United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent. -
A.I.D.S Crisis
in 1981, cases of a rare lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) were found in five young, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles.2 At the same time, there were reports of a group of men in New York and California with an unusually aggressive cancer named Kaposi’s Sarcoma.In December 1981, the first cases of PCP were reported in people who inject drugs.By the end of the year, there were 270 reported cases of severe immune deficiency among gay men - 121 of them had died -
Sandra Day O'connor
is a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States -
MTV
is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981,the channel originally aired music videos.In its early years, MTV's main target demographic was young adults, but today it is towards teenagers, particularly high school and college students. MTV has toned down its music video programming significantly in recent years, and its programming now consists mainly of original reality, comedy and drama -
Ronald Reagan
was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) “Star Wars”
was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. -
Oprah Winfrey
She is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's first and only multi-billionaire black person. -
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1990s
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Rodney King Incident
was a taxi driver who became internationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by. -
Reagan Doctrine
was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. The doctrine was the centerpiece of United States foreign policy from the early 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Election of 1992
was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. There were three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, -
George H. W. Bush
is an American politician who was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former President and Vice President. Since 2000, Bush has often been referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the Elder", or "George Bush Senior" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who was the 43rd President of the United States. -
Bill Clinton
After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 1992, the campaign announced that the then-junior Senator from Tennessee Al Gore would be Clinton's running mate. The Clinton-Gore ticket went on to defeat Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle in the presidential election on November 3, 1992, and took office as the 42nd President and 45th Vice President, respectively, on January 20, 1993. -
Hillary Clinton
is an American politician who was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. -
World Trade Center Attack- 1993
was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, carried out on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,336 pounds (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to send the North Tower (Tower 1) crashing into the South Tower (Tower 2), bringing both towers down and killing tens of thousands of people. It failed to do so but killed six people and injured over a thousand. -
Welfare Reform
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is a United States federal law considered to be a major welfare reform. ... President Bill Clinton signed PRWORA into law on August 22, 1996, fulfilling his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we have come to know it". -
Lewinsky affair
was an American political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The sexual relationship took place between 1995 and 1996 and came to light in 1998. Clinton ended a televised speech with the statement that he did not have sexual relations with Lewinsky. Further investigation led to charges of perjury and led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 -
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Election of 2000
was the 54th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-incumbent governor of Texas and the eldest son of the 41st President George H. W. Bush, narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee Al Gore, then-incumbent vice president and former Senator for Tennessee, as well as various third-party candidates including Ralph Nader. -
George W. Bush
is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. -
No child left behind education act
was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. -
9/11 Attacks
were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage and $3 trillion in total costs. -
Hurricane Katrina
was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. The storm is currently ranked as the third most intense United States landfalling tropical cyclone, behind only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Overall, at least 1,245 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, making it the deadliest United States hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. Total property damage was estimated at $108 billion. -
Obama Presidency
began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat, took office as the 44th United States president following a decisive victory over Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 election, he defeated Mitt Romney to win re-election. He was the first African American president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president -
Barack Obama
he is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president, as well as the first born outside the contiguous United States. He previously served in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. -
Sonya Sotomayor
is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. She has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic heritage, the first Latina, its third female justice, and its twelfth Roman Catholic justice. -
The Great Recession
The great recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country. -
Bush v. Gore (SCOTUS case)
is the United States Supreme Court decision that resolved the dispute surrounding the 2000 presidential election. The ruling was issued on December 12, 2000. On December 9, the Court had preliminary halted the Florida recount that was occurring. Eight days earlier, the Court unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 531 U.S. 70 (2000). The Electoral College was scheduled to meet on December 18, 2000, to decide the election.
