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Berlin

------------ Berlin Wall August 13, 1961 ------------

  • Divide Europe between the two superpowers.
  • US (non-communist) v. USSR (communist)
  • West Berlin & East Berlin

2001

PIGS

Terrorist Attack

Bay of

19 Members of the Al-Qaeda hijacked 4 commercial airplanes

9/11

  • 2 Twin towers of the World Trade Center
  • 1 Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
  • crashed into a field near Shanksville, PA
  • April 17-19, 1961
  • Fidel Castro
  • An attempt by Cuban exiles to overthrow Cuba's Communist government.
  • Exiles were trained and funded by the United States CIA
  • Kennedy was blamed for failure
  • Strengthened Castro's power
  • Cuba & USSR (Cuba Missile Crisis)

The Socialist Fraternal Kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker, 1979

  • Before 1961, East Germans chose to escape Communist rule and seek freedom in the West. Many left by simply crossing into West Berlin from East Berlin.
  • U.S. federal law aimed at improving public primary schools, and student performance, via increased accountability for schools, school districts, and states
  • passed by Congress with bipartisan support in December 2001
  • dramatically increased federal regulation of state school systems
  • yearly tests for reading and mathematics skills in public schools
  • demonstrate adequate progress toward raising the scores of all students
  • Teachers were also required to meet higher standards for certification
  • Schools that failed to meet their goals would be subject to gradually increasing sanctions, eventually including replacement of staff or closure

  • Iron Curtain or Anti-Fascist Protective Wall
  • The Communist USSR built the Berlin Wall to stop emigration.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS): ensure protection from domestic threats, especially terrorism.

Patriot Act (2001): gave law enforcement personnel greatly expanded power to search and monitor personal information and communications with the aim of preventing terrorism.

Saddam Hussein

Executed

  • Hussein admitted to have involvement in 9/11. (WMD)
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom: March 17, 2003, Pres. GW Bush ordered Saddam to step down (War on Terror).
  • Saddam was pulled, disheveled and dirty, from a small underground hiding place near a farmhouse.

major Events of the american history

  • October 2005, Saddam went on trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal, a panel court established to try officials of the former Iraqi govt.
  • November 2006, Saddam was convicted then hanged in December.
  • After the collapse of Hussein's regime, the 3 major groups in Iraq (Sunnis, Shi’a, Kurds) fought among each other.
  • April 20, 2010, BP’s (British Petroleum) oil rig, in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded.
  • 11 died and 206 million gallons of crude oil leaked for three-month spreading throughout nearby coastal waters.
  • Louisiana,
  • Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida (June)
  • President Obama pledged that BP would foot the bill to clean up the spill.
  • $20 billion went towards payments for business like fisheries, shrimping fleets, and tourist companies that the oil spill had severely crippled their livelihoods after the government closed the waters between the Mississippi River.
  • Ecological damage: environmentalists concerned. 1,200 birds dead
  • December 2010, Department of the Interior ban oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast until 2017.
  • American jobs and vital energy resources, hindering economic growth

1949-present

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Samuel Desire, Jonathan Lashgari, Domonique McHenry, Matthaios Rodgers, & Lisa Zhang

Oil Spill

PUZZLES

  • Golden Age of Television
  • Mass production of TV sets
  • By 1860, 87 percent of American households were equipped to receive black-and-white programs.
  • Big-money prime-time quiz shows, enjoyed a comeback at the end of the ’90s, such as Wheel of Fortune.
  • Puzzles were often related to current events; it informed the American society with updates on war and the economy.

  • The People's Republic of China
  • Mason-Dixon Line
  • The New Testament
  • Civil Defense
  • An American Success Story
  • United States Air Force
  • The Thrill of Victory & The Agony of Defeat
  • In this Business it's Dog-Eat-Dog
  • Charlie & American Pride
  • The Judge & The Jury

X

MALCOLM

  • deaths of multiple unarmed black men and boys at the hands of police officers in the United States made international headlines; led to rioting in the black communities
  • One of the most prominent African American political & religious leaders of the civil rights era.
  • Convicted of burglary at the age of 20, he became attracted to the Black Muslim Nation of Islam (NOI) movement while in jail.
  • Convert blacks to Elijah Muhammad's black-separatist Islam

assassination

  • 1964, Malcolm's departure from the NOI caused a feud between him and the NOI.
  • He was assassinated by NOI muslims during his OAAU speech in New York. (Just week before his assassination, his house was firebombed a by the NOI)

JFK

  • When the assassins stood up to shoot Malcolm, his security guards stationed at the front of the stage moved not to secure him, but to clear out of the way.
  • Many politicians and social scientists asserted that law enforcement officials and the criminal justice system in general do not treat African Americans and whites equally
  • "black lives matter" a movement that brought great attention to the matter of deaths
  • The more cases of police brutality; more cases of police deaths in the line of duty

  • The investigation that followed was careless. The crime scene was not secured for analysis -- instead, it was cleaned up to allow for a scheduled dance to take place that afternoon, with bullet holes still in the wall!
  • Congress neglected the investigation of the assassination of Malcolm X, JFK, and several other civil rights leaders including MLK, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
  • Dallas, TX
  • November 22, 1963
  • Lee Harvey Oswald

Watergate

Scandal

Kronenwetter, Michael. "Watergate scandal." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.

"No Child Left Behind (NCLB)." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2016. Web. 17 May. 2016.

"Saddam Hussein." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2016. Web. 17 May. 2016.

Curtis Iv, Edward E. "Malcolm X (1925–1965)." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Ed. Richard C. Martin. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2016. 684. Global Issues in Context. Web. 16 May 2016

"Malcolm X." Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2016): 1p. 1. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Web. 16 May 2016.

"9-11 Commission Report: Chapter 9." The 9/11 Commission Report. Washington, DC: The 9/11 Commission, 2004. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 17 May 2016.

"Black Lives Matter." Global Issues in Context Online Collection. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016. Global Issues in Context. Web. 17 May 2016.

"No War on Cops, No War on Blacks: We Face Instead a Set of Conventional, Intractable Systemic Failures." Global Issues in Context Online Collection. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.Global Issues in Context. Web. 17 May 2016.

Lengle, James I. "Warren Report." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.

Wallenfeldt, Jeff. "Assassination of John F Kennedy." Britannica School. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 May 2016.

Shenkman, Kenneth J. "War on terror." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2016. Web. 17 May 2016.

"War on terrorism." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2016. Web. 17 May. 2016.

"Broadcasting, Radio And Television." Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2016): 1p. 1. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Web. 16 May 2016.

Croan, Melvin. "Berlin Wall." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.

"Introduction to The BP Oil Spill: At Issue." BP Oil Spill. Ed. David Haugen. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. At Issue. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 16 May 2016.

"Boston Marathon bombing." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.

  • Kennedy killed during Motorcade
  • Johnson was sworn in as President and created the Warren Commission charged with investigation of Kennedy’s death
  • Inconclusive

Boston

MARATHON

2013

  • Boston on April 15, 2013.
  • Two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the race.
  • killed 3 people and injured more than 200
  • US Government noticed that they needed to improve its national security more than they did after 9/11.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (26) and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (19), both from the Regions of Russia.

War on TERROR

  • June 17, 1972
  • The Democratic Headquarters @ Watergate Hotel
  • CREEP - Committee for the Re-Election of the President
  • Cover-up by Nixon
  • Investigation by the Senate
  • Nixon uses executive power to hold onto the recordings that could inculpate him.
  • House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of impeachment against Nixon
  • Senate would most likely remove him from office
  • The first U.S. president ever to resign from office

  • April 19, TT died after attempting to escape
  • DT was discovered hiding on a boat in a Watertown driveway suffering serious wound
  • Efforts by the U.S. to combat terrorist activities following the September 11 attacks of 2001
  • U.S. launched military strikes against terrorist strongholds in Afghanistan

  • Influenced by Al-Qaeda
  • DT wrote a letter in pencil on the boat

"God has a plan for each person. Mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions,"

"We are promised victory and we will surely get it. Now I don't like killing innocent people...but due to said [bullet hole] it is allowed," he continued.

"The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians but most of you already know that. I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished.... I ask Allah... to allow me to return to him and be among all the righteous people in the highest levels of heaven. . ."

  • The Afghanistan War: October 7, 2001
  • Military campaign to remove the Taliban from power
  • Osama bin Laden escaped; incomplete victory
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