Time Period #8 2011-2016 U.S. History – Unit 8
2010 Affordable Health Care Act (Obama Care) passes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8g-IrI8JA BP oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvuzuyEKLd8 Youtube – 2:02 Youtube – 1:48
2010 “Occupy Wall Street” movement starts in NYC. To stand against corporate greed, social inequality, and the disproportion between the rich and poor. (1% vs. 99%) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOWci6yrSs Youtube – 4:42
2011 Osama Bin Laden found and killed in Pakistan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFra3B9sbA In Tucson, Arizona a gunman opens fire at a constituent meeting led by US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords injuring 14, including Giffords, and killing 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqIadJE6GE Youtube – 2:30 Zero Dark Thirty Youtube – 3:00
2011 Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56. He was an American computer engineer, who co-founded in 1976 Apple Inc., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5SMyfbWYyE Youtube – 1:53
2012 Obama re-elected as President. 2012 Summer Olympics: Michael Phelps wins a record 19th Olympic medal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLhTCwor1YQ Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, CT kills 26 people, including 20 children between the ages of six and seven. Youtube 4:13
2012 American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya attacked. Four killed including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MBjAN7jqsQ Youtube – 3:05
2013 Two brothers explode two bombs at the Boston Marathon killing 3 and injuring 264 others. Caught and later convicted in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBC_eumlVts National Anthem Boston Bruins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMsagY7oRs Youtube – 2:51 Youtube – 2:29
2014 One World Trade Center opens 13 years after 9/11. The new building is 1,776 feet high. Youtube -1:44 1st World Trade towers were 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world's tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower surpassed them both in 1974. 9/11 Memorial is opened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRw7UaHRkyo
2015 Measles Cases spread in the US (over 100 cases), tracked backed to Disneyland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtx84JPk6Xo Protests and riots break out in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, and Cleveland due to deaths of Black men at the hands of police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vF4si3hoRA Youtube – 1:57 Youtube – 2:37
2015 Boston Marathon Bomber sentenced to death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5XlSW2suvQ 2015 remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4G2rQ4_oQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7o7R5BgWDY Youtube – 4:38 Youtube – 2:06 Youtube – 2:00
2016 in Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyfYneuAr8I
2018 You graduate!