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Mount St. Helens became the largest and most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history. 57 people had died. -
In 1980, John Lennon is assassinated by an obsessed fan.
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Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th President of the United States of America. -
In 1981, a failed assassination attempt on Reagan. He was shot but not killed. -
President Ronald Reagan said the American troops were sent into Grenada to protect U.S. citizens there and to prevent the island's use as a base for Soviet and Cuban aggression in the Western Hemisphere. -
In 1985, Nintendo releases a gaming conule. 60 million were sold. -
In 1986, a space shuttle was being sent off to space and explodes in air, while being watched by family, and friends, and broadcasted on the news. -
In Soviet Ukraine, a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl explodes. Sending radioactivity into the earth's atmosphere. -
George H.W. Bush becomes the 41st President of the United States of America. -
The East and West Berliners storm and protest at the Berlin Wall with hammers, chisels, pickaxes, etc. Destroying the Berlin Wall until there was an opening. -
The Gulf War was an armed campaign waged by a United States-led coalition of 35 nations against Iraq in response to the Iraqi invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
U.S. and allied ground forces in Iraq and Kuwait decisively defeated a battle-hardened army, the fourth largest in the world, and liberated Kuwait. -
The Soviet Union falls, and the Cold War finally ends with an American victory. -
Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd President of the United States of America. -
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City -
George W. Bush becomes the 43rd President of the United States of America. -
In 2001, terrorist attacks were on the World Trade Center (Twin Towers), the Pentagon, and the White House. Thousands of people are killed. -
In response to the terrorist attacks, the United States declares the War on Terror, fighting along with Britain, France, and Russia.
