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

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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