U.S. History 1980-Present
By: Corey Hotchkiss
Ronald Reagan’s Presidency
• Elected president in 1980• Believed in individual freedom• Almost assassinated on March 31, 1981
Ronald Reagan’s Presidency (continued)
• Iran Contra affair• Traded arms for hostages• Funded Nicaragua Contras (communist rebels)
George H.W. Bush
• Elected in 1988• Pledged no new taxes• Broke promise to compensate for recession
U.S Invasion of Panama
• December 20, 1989 - January 31, 1990• Operation Just Cause- mission to overthrow
Manuel Noriega and stop drug trafficking• Only 24 deaths in combat
Persian Gulf War
• August 2, 1990 –February 28, 1991• Mission to force Iraq forces out of Kuwait.• Less than 500 lost• Kuwait declared liberated on April 6
End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War
• INF Treaty• Eliminated intermediate range missiles• Soviet Union ends December 25, 1991• Estimated Cost: 8 trillion
Bill Clinton
• Elected in 1992• Created first white house website• Executive order 13011- all federal agencies
must use electronic information to make its information public.
• Expanded number of crimes punishable by death
Bill Clinton (continued)
• Second president to be impeached• Acquitted of two charges
George W Bush
• Elected in 2000• Election results of Florida Disputed• Election results decided by Supreme Court• Lost popular vote, but won electoral vote.
September 11, 2001
September 11, 2001
September 11, 2001
• Suicide bombings by Al-Qaeda• Attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Fourth plane crashed in a field in Somerset County, PA
Aftermath of 9/11
• PATRIOT Act-Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
• Invasion of Afghanistan• Invasion of Iraq
Invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq
• Goal- End terrorism in the world and defend U.S. citizens
• War in Afghanistan continues• Result of Iraq War:• Saddam Hussein’s gov’t
defeated• Insurgency continues
Hurricane Katrina
• Costliest Hurricane in U.S. history- $89.6 B• Rise in crime• National Guard sent to restore order• Katrinagate• Criticized government response
Global Warming
Global Warming
• Increase in average surface temperature of the Earth.
• Kyoto Protocol- reduce greenhouse gasses• Active in 160 countries• Geoengineering- modify atmosphere• Use of renewable resources.
AIDS epidemic
• Millions of deaths• Life expectancies decreased• No known cure• Disease expensive to combat.
Cloning
• Cloning is considered ethically unjust by many people.
• Dolly the sheep
Illegal Immigration
• About 12 million illegal immigrants as of 2006• Illegals use false marriage and human
traffickers to gain entry• Penalties for violation are deportation and
imprisonment.
Violence in schools
• 1.5 million incidents in schools• 38% of schools
Barack Obama
• Elected in 2008• First African-American president• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009
Economic Recession
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Economic Recession
• Current Unemployment Situation
Works Cited
• Wikipedia. May 2009. May 2009 <http://www.wikipedia.org/>.
• America: History of our nation. Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
• HistoResearch. May 2009. May 2009 <http://www.historesearch.com/recentamhist.html>.
• History.com. May 2009. A&E Television networks. May 2009 <http://www.history.com/topics/ushistory>.
Works Cited
• "Graph: Unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted)." Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject. 19 May 2009 <http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=LN_cpsbref3>.
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