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1990's |
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Fighting Communism 1950-53
Korean War
US 50,000+ killed, 100,000+ wounded, SK 1,000,000 casualties
1953 Rosenberg's executed
for being Russian Spies
1959 Castro Communist Government takes over in Cuba.
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1961 Bay of Pigs Cuban invasion fails |
1970 Kent State Shootings by state
national guardsmen during student antiwar protests kills four students.. |
1986 Iran-Contra investigation looks RR use
of funds to help rebels and does little. Six officials eventually
convicted. Bush I pardoned them in 1992. |
1983 Granada invaded by US as a
result of a decade of political instability. !989 Berlin Wall
falls Ending The Cold War! |
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| 1962 Berlin Wall built by
Russia |
| 1962 Cuban Missile Crises Kennedy uses
blockade to get missals removed thus averting a possible nuclear war. |
1964-73 Vietnam War
US 60,000+ killed, 300,000+ wounded, SK 1,000,000 casualties |
| Middle East Conflict 1953
President Eisenhower orders CIA to help Prime Minister
Churchill's M6 overthrow Iran's
democratically elected
government. Ike's predecessor U.S.
President Truman had opposed a coup.[1 |
1961 Oil Kingdom Kuwait is formed by
England as part of the
Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 in which Britain split Kuwait from
other Ottoman territories. She is quickly claimed by Iraq who
waited thirty years to make good the claim. 1967 Six-Day War
proceeded by a period of high tension ends quickly as Israel defeats
Egypt, Jordan and Syria using troops with US made arms and trained by
the US military. |
1979 Iranian students, upset by US
trying to influence Iranian politics take 52 hostages for 444 days at US
Embassy. President Carter's rescue attempt fails as a helicopter and
plane crash killing 8. Hostages released in 1981. Some say presidential
candidate Ronald Reagan influenced a hostage release delay until after
his election against President Carter. |
1983 US Lebanese Embassy bombing
kills 63 1986 US bombs Libyan terrorist bases to stop Gaddafi's
support for terrorism and her attempts to become a nuclear power.
Gaddafi quickly agrees to US demands.
Lockerbie, Scotland bombing of Pan-Am NY bound
flight flight kills 270 i |
1991 Persian Gulf War US lead
coalition forces stops
Saddam Hussein from taking over Kuwait's oil. |
2001 9/11 2,500 killed. Bush
starts for a War on Terror, many say its just another incident in a long
line of terrorist acts. Bush Wins! |
| 1993 Clinton orders missile attack Iraq for
an assassination attempt of Bush I |
2001 Afghanistan War led by US forces 2003 Iraq War
4,500 killed, wounded ______,
2 trillion $ and counting |
| 1998 US Missile attack on Sudan and
Afghanistan following terror attacks on US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania |
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Civil Rights
1954 Brown vs. Board of
Education begins Civil War 2. President Eisenhower sends troops to
Little Rock, Arkansas. Johnson signs 1965 Civil Rights Act
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1961
Freedom Riders travel the south for Civil Rights. |
1968 Civil Rights
Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson the
conservative Texas politician now representing all the people. |
1988
Civil Rights Restoration Act
tying federal contracts to covering all civil rights laws passed when a
Democratically controlled Congress overrides President Ronald Reagan's
vetoed he felt gave the federal government overreaching powers |
1990 Civil
Rights Bill extending the rights of employees suing employers for
discrimination was vetord by President George H.W. Bush because
he felt it would impose quotas. A similar bill without quotas passes
in 1991. |
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| 1963
Medgar Evers assassinated |
| 1965
Selma Alabama Civil Rights demonstrators attacked by state troopers.
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1978 The Supreme
Court rules, in a reverse discrimination case rules that medical
school admission based on race are unconstitutional |
| Malcolm X
is assassinated |
1992 LA riots kill 53,
injured 2000+ one billion in damages after the acquittal of 4 white
officers charged with of brutality. |
| Watts
California 6 day riots kill 35, 883 wounded. |
| 1968 Martin L King
assassinated |
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Health/Welfare 1952 Polio
crippling 58, 000, 1953- 35, 000, 1957 5,600
cases 1964 - 121 cases
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1977 Pneumonia vaccine
lessens the affect of 750,000 annual cases. |
1981 Aids identified
1985 Aids blood donation screening tests
1987 first antiretroviral drug
1992 Aids combination drug therapies
1995
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) dramatically lowers
death rate. |
1995 Chicken Pox vaccine lowers
the 4,000,000 mostly children annual cases with about 12,000
hospitalizations and 125 mostly adult deaths
Historical Data |
2006 Shingles Vaccine |
| 1957
"Asian" flu influenza pandemic causes estimated
70,000 US deaths |
1967 Mumps vaccine lowers the
300,000 annual cases |
| 1968-9
Hong Kong flu
kills 33,800 |
| Education 1957 Russian launch
Sputnik, US math science education criticized, economist predict
Soviet economy will soon pass.
Governments increase education spending. |
1960's The New Math was a brief,
dramatic change in the mathematics was taught stressing set theory and
more verbal terminology. Much was added, little subtracted. |
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Standards based education ties federal funding to
test results |
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Politics
1951
Douglas MacArthur relieved of
General of the Army of his commands by President
Harry S. Truman relieved for making public statements that
contradicted the administration's policy |
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1972 Watergate brake in |
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| 1973 Vice President Agnew
to resigns. because of corruption charges from earlier in his political
life. |
| 1974 President Nixon
resigns after house votes impeachment |
| Political
Assassinations 1950 Puerto Rican terrorist fail to assassinate President
Truman.
1954 Four Puerto Rican nationalists shoot and
injure five US House members. |
1963 J. F.
Kennedy assassinated in Dallas |
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1981 Ronald
Reagan assassination attempt fails. |
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| 1968 R. Kennedy
assassinated |
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Abuse of Political Power
McCarthyism: A broad political and cultural
purge
against people suspected of sympathy with
communism, starting near the end of
World War II and reaching its climax in the investigations of Sen.
Joseph McCarthy. |
1966 Miranda Rights try to stop police
brutality. |
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1995 budget standoff results in partial
three week shutdown of government |
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| 1998 house votes to impeach Clinton on
perjury and obstruction of justice |
| Collateral damage from
science There were 33,186 deaths
on U.S. roads in 1950 when the country had less than 150 million people
and fewer cars than our 330 million people have today. Car crashes killed
33,808 in 2009 |
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1979 Three Mile Island
nuclear plant near meltdown caused two additional cancer deaths within
ten miles. |
1989 USS Valdez spill lots of oil in Alaska |
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1993 51-day Branch Davidian Texas
standoff ended by the FBI with 80 cult members dead |
| 2000 World Trade Center bombing
kills 6, injuring about 1,000 |
| 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Office
Building Bombing kills 168 |
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| 1996 Centennial Olympic Park
Bombing kills 2, injures 111. |
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| 1999 Columbine High school shoo9tings
Colorado kills 14 including 2 shooters |
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| Political Shenanigans |
1969 Teddy Kennedy
has a late night accident at Chappaquiddick Island killing his young
female companion.
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1994 Paula Jones files federal harassment against
Clinton |
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| 1998 Monica Lewinski has relations with President
Clinton. |
