Richard Nixon 1969-1974
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Environmental Protection Agency |
Established on December 2, 1970 is an agency of the federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health.
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Nixon visits China |
President Nixon takes the first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. Nixon’s visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China.
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SALT |
An agreement signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979 and currently still in effect, it intent is to restrain the arms race in strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.
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War Powers Act, 1973 |
Law passed in 1973 allowing Congress to limit the President's use of military forces. It states that the President must tell Congress within 48 hours if he sends armed forces anywhere, and Congress must give approval for them to stay there for more than 90 days.
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Nixon's Resignation |
Facing impeachment by Congress do to the Watergate Scandal, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974.
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Kent State |
An incident in 1970, in which unarmed students protesting against United States involvement in the Vietnam War were fired on by panicky troops of the National Guard. Four students were killed and nine wounded.
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Jimmy Carter 1977-1981
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Oil Crisis |
The members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC plus Egypt and Syria) proclaimed an oil embargo.
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Camp David Accords |
A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt thanks to talks at Camp David between Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the host, U.S. President Carter was signed in 1979.
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Iran Hostage Crisis |
November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment.
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Ronald Reagan 1981-1989
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Reaganomics |
the economic policies: reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity.
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United States invades Grenada |
Reagan, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the nation of Grenada by there Marxist regime, orders the Marines to invade and secure their safety. With nearly 1,000 Americans in Grenada at the time, many of them students at the island’s medical school. In little more than a week, Grenada’s government was overthrown.
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Iranian hostage crisis rescue attempt |
On April 24, 1980, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued.
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Strategic Defense Initiative |
Known as Star Wars, was first initiated on March 23, 1983 under 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.
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George H.W. Bush 1989-1993
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THE BERLIN WALL: THE FALL OF THE WALL |
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). At midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints.
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Operation Desert Storm
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Morning of January 17, 1991, a massive U.S.-led air offensive hit Iraq’s air defenses, moving swiftly on to its communications networks, weapons plants, oil refineries and more. The coalition effort, known as Operation Desert Storm, benefited from the latest military technology, including Stealth bombers, Cruise missiles, so-called “Smart” bombs with laser-guidance systems and infrared night-bombing equipment. The Iraqi air force was either destroyed early on or opted out of combat under the relentless attack, the objective of which was to win the war in the air and minimize combat on the ground as much as possible.
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Bill Clinton 1993-2001
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North Atlantic free trade agreement |
A regulation implemented January 1, 1994 in Mexico, Canada and the United States to eliminate most tariffs on trade between these nations.
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Sex scandal |
Exactly that an scandal, stating that Bill Clinton had an affair with one of the white house inters
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Airstrikes on Serbia |
On March 24, 1999, (NATO) commences air strikes against Yugoslavia with the bombing of Serbian military positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. The NATO offensive came in response to a new wave of ethnic cleansing launched by Serbian forces against the Kosovar Albanians on March 20.
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George W. Bush 2001-2009
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Disputed Election |
It all began by an error caused by the media that declared that the State of Florida was won by Al Gore. The networks then retracted their call and placed Florida in the undecided camp. That night it became clear that the Florida decision would determine the elections. Then the networks made their next mistake, declaring the State of Florida for George Bush. That set in motion a concession phone call by Gore to Bush. The election had not yet been decided. The Gore campaign demanded a recount in many areas of Florida, that Bush campaign tried to block in court. The Gore campaign won motion in local and Federal courts to allow the recount to continue, but then the Bush campaign then turned to the US Supreme Court. It then rendered one of the most controversial decisions in its history ruling that the vote recount must be stopped. The vote of the justices was strictly along party lines, with justices appointed by Republicans voting to end the recount and democrats for the count to continue. Bush thus was awarded the electoral votes of Florida and won the presidency.
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9/11 ATTACK |
On Tuesday, 11 September 2001, nineteen members of the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda perpetrated a devastating, deadly assault on the United States, crashing airplanes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, killing thousands.
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Invasion of Iraq |
the United States, along with coalition forces from the United Kingdom, initiated war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisers built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction.
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