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Roosvelt and the End of the War.o Yalta Postamo Teheran Casablanca

o El Cairo Moscow

conferences.

Truman.o Taft-Harley Labour Act (1947).

o Previous economic control abandoned

o Cold War.

o Marshall Plan.

o Korean War.

o NATO

o Rosenberg Case.

o Smith Act ( 1940).

Eisenhowero

Great industrial boom.o Strenghtening oligarchies abroad.

o 1st hydrogen bomb.

o Missile research.

o Alaska 49th and Hawaii 50th States.

o Failed USSR negotiations.

JFK

o Racial integration.

o Tax reform.

o Medical benefits for the aged.

o Invasion of Cuba 1962 at

Cochinos Bay.o Orbital flight around the Earth.

o Cuban missiles crises.

Lyndon B. Jonsono Civil Rights Act ( 1965 ).

o Voting Rights Act ( 1965).

o war on poverty Great

Societyo Economic Opportunity Act

(1964).

o Vietman War.

o Social and civil uprising.

o Martin L. King and Robert

Kennedy are shot dead.

Nixono Promised end to Vietnam War.

o Ordered troops into neutral.

Cambodia .

o Landing of two men on the moon.

o Antiballistic missiles system.o Very conservative at home ( freeze

prices, wages and rents).

o Agreements with China and USSR.

o Withdrawal from Vietnam War.

o Watergate affair.

Gerald R. Ford.o Continuation of Nixons policy

abroad.

o Arab embargo due to US support

of Israel in Yom Kippur War.

o Pardoned Nixons previous

crimes.

o Economic recession

James E. Jimmy Carter.o

Honesty and morality campaign.o Creation ofDepartment of Energy (1977).

o Texas, Luisiana, Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska economies boomed ( oil resources ).

o Camp David Egypt-Israel. Anwar al-Sadat & Menachem Begin.

o SALT II.

o Iran Embassy hostage crisis.

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Ronald Reagano Oldest man to become President.

o Cut spending on social programs.

o Anti trade unions and labour rights.

o Oil Price bagan to drop.

o Deregulation of public companies.

o Economic Recovery.

o 1987 deregulations lead to financial scandals.

o Cold War rethorics.

o Star Wars 1981.

o Aids to anti-communist Nicaraguan Sandinists.

o Space shuttle Challenger crash 1986.

o Lybian air raids. Gadafi government.

o Mikhail Gorvachev launches Glasnost.

George Busho Invasin of Panama supporting Manuel

Noriega.

o Personal Gulf War.

o

Operation Desert Shield (1990).o Operation Desert Storm.

o Crisis on manufacturing industry crisis.

Bill Clinton.o Economic relief.

o Peace troops in Somalia and Haiti.

o Oklahoma city federal building explosion. 169 killed.

o Lewinsky scandal

o Troops in Kosovo as peace keepers.

o Nasdaq internet and technology stock bubble.

George W. Bush.o Florida vote recounting.

o Economy recession.

o Abandonement ofKyoto Protocol and anti ballistic

missile treaties.

o World Trade Centre aircraft crash.

o Osama bin Laden.

o Afghanistan occupation.

o 2nd Iraq War. ( massive destruction weapons theme ).

o Sunni forces uprising un Falluja.

o Shiite upheaval in An Najaf.o 2nd Shuttle crush 2003.