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Waco Fire and Seige- David Koresh
The ATF planned to raid the Branch Davidian ranch located outside of Waco, Texas. They attempted to storm the compound on 2/28/93. For 51 days, the ATF and the FBI waited outside the compound. On 4/19, ATF attempted to end the siege by using CS gas. Shortly after, the wooden compound caught on fire and 75 people died.
EQ: To what degree should the U.S. play a role in society's well being?
A: Anytime there's a significant threat to American lives or society as a whole. -
Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in D.C.
Dedication included speeches by President Bill Clinton; Chaim Herzog, president of Israel; Harvey Meyerhoff, and Elie Wiesel, who had been awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. On April 26, the Museum officially opened - with its first visitor being His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
EQ: How are equal rights determined, and what are indicators?
A: Equal rights can be interpreted differently by every person, but the Memorial Museum indicates equality and retribution paid to the Jewish race. -
Oslo Accords
PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in D.C. DOPs stated "it's time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict, recognize their mutual legitimate and political rights, and strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security and achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation through the agreed political process."
EQ: U.S. role in the world?
-To strive for and assist in acheiving peace -
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Introduced by President Clinton, who promised to allow all citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation. The "Don’t Ask" mandates that military officials will not ask or require members to reveal their sexual orientation. The "Don’t Tell" states that a member may be discharged for claiming to be a homosexual or bisexual.
EQ: How should equal rights be determined? Indicators?
-Equal rights should be determined by the definition of equal. This is not an indicator of equality -
Rwandan Genocide
Hutu extremists in Rwanda blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s social, economic, and political issues and accused them supporting the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front. On April 6, a plane carrying President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. In retaliatiln, Hutu's launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. 800,000 men, women, and children perished.
EQ: Nat'l interest/domestic factors & Foreign policy
-U.S. failed to help despite nat'l interest -
Bojinka Plot
Islamist terrorist attack by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to blow up 12 airliners and their 4,000 passengers as they flew from Asia to the U.S. Also refers to a combination of plots by Yousef and Mohammed to take place in January 1995, including a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
EQ: How have individuals challenged traditional interpretaions of social roles?
-These terrorists have wrongly perceived their religion and feel it is necessary to kill to abide by their beliefs -
Hong Kong retrurns to China rule
Hong Kong reverts back to Chinese rule in a ceremony attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles of Wales, and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. A few thousand Hong Kongers protested the turnover, which was otherwise celebratory and peaceful.
EQ: What economic factors allow for success and failure withing society?
-Since the handover, Hong Kong's economic future became far more exposed to the challenges of economic globalisation competition directly from China. -
Princess Diana dies
The Princess died in a terrible car collision in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the chauffeur, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Fayed's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the only survivor. A French judicial investigation concluded in 1999 that the crash was caused by Henri Paul, who lost control of the car at high speed while under the influence. -
U.S. Embassy Bombing in Kenya & Tanzania
A series of attacks in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the U.S. embassies in the East African cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The bombings were linked to members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. It's widely believed to have been revenge for American involvement in the extradition, and alleged torture, of four members of the EIJ
EQ: What additonal challenges come from being a world power?
-Threat of attack from enemy forces. -
Introduction of the Euro
The euro was introduced on January 1, 1999, but it had been a goal of the European Union since the 1960s. Beginning in January 1999, all bonds and other forms of government debt by Eurozone nations were denominated in euros. The notes and coins for the old currencies, however, continued to be used as legal tender until new notes and coins were introduced on January 1, 2002. EQ: Economic factors?
-Universalizing currency in the E.U. will make commerce easier and flow more smoothly. -
The final Peanuts comic is published
Charles Monroe Schulz dies in his sleep at home on February 12, 2000. The last original Peanuts strip was published the very next day, on Sunday, February 13, 2000, just hours after his death. Schulz was buried at Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Sebastopol, California. As part of his will, Schulz had requested that the Peanuts characters remain as authentic as possible and that no new comic strips based on them be drawn. -
Valdimir Putin is elected President of Russia
Putin was elected president of the Russian Federation as the successor of Boris Yeltsin. After earning a law degree in 1975, Putin joined the KGB, the security force of the former Soviet Union. Officially elected to the office in 2000 and then re-elected in a landslide vote in March of 2004.
EQ: Nat'l interest determining foreign policy?
-U.S. is still snooping around in Russia's internal affairs, which angered Putin later on in his presidency. -
Beltway Sniper
The attacks began with a series of five fatal shootings in 15 hours in Montgomery County, and continued for the next three weeks in the Washington metropolitan area, filling the area with fear. The shootings occurred at gas stations, supermarkets, restaurants, and schools in a circular pattern around Washington. On October 24, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested.
EQ:U.S. gov't role in society's well being?
-Protect society and civilian lives as a whole at all costs. -
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. It was a result of damage sustained during launch when a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank under the aerodynamic forces of launch. It struck the leading edge of the left wing, damaging the thermal protection system. -
Genocide in Darfur
Since the beginning of the conflict, over 400,000 Darfurian civilians have been killed, which means about 150 people lose their lives every day. 97% of these killings have been against innocent civilians and executed by militia groups instructed by the government.
EQ: U.S. role in the world?
-U.S. didn't intervene soon enough once again. When direct Human Rights violations are happening in masses, the U.S. should intervene immediately. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. -
Indian Ocean Tsunami
Severe earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, followed by aftershocks ranging from 6.3 to 7.0. This resulted in a powerful tsunami. The wave travelled quickly under the ocean, building to a wall of water up to 10 metres high when it reached the coastal waters.. The death toll was 187,000, with nearly 43,000 missing and thousands displaced. The U.S. being a world power, stepped up to help the affected area. -
Edgar Ray Killen Convitcted
On the 41st anniversary of the day that three civil rights workers were ambushed and killed by a Ku Klux Klan mob, a jury found Klansman Edgar Ray Killen guilty on three counts of manslaughter.
1964"Freedom Summer" killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, helped galvanize the civil rights movement that led to major reforms in access to voting, education and public accommodations.
EQ: What motivated civil rights movement?
-Murder, violence, oppression, progression -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, destroying beachfront towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, displacing a million people, and killing almost 1,800. When levees in New Orleans gave away, 80% of the city was submerged by the flooding. About 20% of its 500,000 citizens were trapped in the city without power, food, or drinking water.
EQ: Gov't role in society's well being
-U.S. did not respond to this tragedy anywhere as quickly as they should have. Gov't needs to be more proactive. -
North Korea Tests First Nuclear Weapon
Rumours of an imminent nuclear test circulated during 2005 and early 2006. North Korea announced its intention to conduct a test on October 3, 2006, six days prior, and in doing so became the first nation to give warning of its first nuclear test.
EQ: Nat'l interest and foreign policy
-America needs to remain wary and vigilant of what NK is up to. They should constantly monitor them covertly to be aware of possible threats. -
Saddam Hussein is hanged
Hussein was sentenced to death, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ite in the town of Dujail in 1982 and various other war crimes that he committed in his 24 year reign of evil and terror.
EQ: U.S. role in the world
-We must protect Human Rights and carry out punishments against those who violate them. -
Fidel Castro Resigns
In a letter from February 18, 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the National Assembly Meetings. In 06, Mr. Castro, who is 81, temporarily handed over power to his brother, Raúl Castro, 76. “It would betray my conscience to occupy a responsibility that requires mobility and the total commitment that I am not in the physical condition to offer.”
EQ: Individual challenging traditions
-He challenge all "traditional interpretations" -
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
BP's oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and commencing months of unrestrained oil leakage into the ocean. They tried to manage the spill with controlled burning, dispersants and plugging the leak, unsuccessfully, until BP capped the well in mid-July.The well was declared "effectively dead" on 9/19.
EQ: What economic factors allow for success and failures within society?
A: This was a disaster for all of the fishers and tourist workers on the Gulf Coast, costing billions.
