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On June 17, 1972 the democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel was broken into. Five men has taped over a few locks, leaving the doors open. A security guard noticed and called the police. Five men were arrested inside and charged with attempted

Iran Hostage Crisis

               The Iran Hostage Crisis was a crisis between Iran and the US. Fifty-two US citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981.) Iran students and militants took captured 66 americans. Six p

The Iraqi war, which took place from March 19-May 1, 2003, was part of the United States' response to terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C.. The US, along with the UK and Australia and Poland, invaded Iraq in hopes of taking down the Pers

Space Program

When the soviet Union launched Sputnik the space race was on. President John F. Kennedy was the president that really pushed this because we had to beat the soviet union. NASA is the program that was created to make an space shuttle.

Darfur started a war in early 2003 and they are trying to get back together with the country.  They have been in a crisis for three years.  People are dieing rapidly from malnutrition and diseases. Malnutrition - when your body does not get enough nu

http://www.eyesondarfur.org/crisis.html

http://www.amnestyusa.org/darfur/darfur-history/page.do?id=1351103

Darfur

Darfur is in western Sudan and they have some of the worst human right problems in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people have died a

I was in DC (:

today i was in washington DC

          In 1994, there were between 500000 and 1000000 people murdered in Rwanda. This lasted only 100 days. It started with the assassination of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6th and lasted until the middle of July. The genoci

After watching the movie Taxi Driver at least 15 times in the late 1970’s, John Hinkley Jr. began to have an obsession with one of the characters from the movie, Jodie Foster, called erotomania. (Which means a person believes that another person, usu

What happened in Rwanda in 1994? ..

The answer is, The Rwandan Genocide.

The Rwandan Genocide was when about 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda in 100 days time. This is 205 of the countrys population. This was before the assasination of Juvénal Haby

War in Afghanistan (2001)

The war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001. United States Armed forces, British Armed forces, and Afghan United Front began Operaton Enduring Freedom. The reason for this operation was because of what happened on Septem

(An internet logo)The modern Internet was began in the 1950's-60's with the Invention of, you guessed it, computers. Although some argue that the Internet began with the Telegraph in the 19th Century. In 1982 the Internet Protocol Suite  was standard

Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women(Ch. 23.2) and Latin-Americans/Native Americans(Ch. 23.1) -

African Americans-

Often referred to as the Civil Right Movement. It was securing rights such as voting and non-segregation for african americans. Ther

Sixty-nine days into Ronald Reagan's presidency, the day is March 30, 1981 and it's a Monday. After giving a speech, Reagan was shot at by John Hinckley Jr.. Reagan suffered a punctured lung but survived. Hinckley got off because he was "insane." I d

On March 30, 1981 (69 days into his presidency) Ronald Reagan was the target of an assassination attempt. Reagan had been leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel after a speaking engagement in Washington DC. Reagan was shot and suffered a punctured lung