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United States History: 2000- Timeline

2000-2004

2000 (October 12) USS Cole Bombing

2000 (November) George W. Bush elected 43rd president / Dick Cheney vice president

2001 (June 7) Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001

2001 (September 11)

2001 (September 11) - Present - War on Terror

2001 (September 18 - October 9) Anthrax Attacks

2001 (October 7) - Present - Afghanistan War

2001 (October 26) USA Patriot Act

2002 D.C. Sniper Attacks

2002 (January) Missile Defense Agency supersedes Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

2002 (June) U.S. withdraws from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

2003 Gitmo and Abu Ghraib Torture and Prisoner Abuse

2003 (March 20) - 2011 (December 18) Iraq War


WMD not found

2003 (May 31) Christian Terrorist Eric Rudolph arrested

2005-2009

2007 (January) Iraq War Troop Surge

2007 (August 1) I-35W Mississippi River bridge Collapse (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

2007-2009 Recession

2008 (April 3-10) Raid of FLDS YFZ Ranch in Texas

2008 Madoff investment scandal

2008 (November) Barack Obama elected 44th president / Joe Biden vice president

2009 (October 22) Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

2009 (February 17) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

2009 (February) Tea Party movement begins

2010-2014

2010 (March 23, 2010) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

2010 (April 8) New START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

2010 (April 20 - September 19) Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill

2011 (September 17) Occupy Wall Street

2011 (May 2, 2011) Osama bin Laden killed by US Navy SEALs

2012 (February 26) Trayvon Martin Shooting

2012 (December 14) Page semi-protected Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

2013 (May) Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden flees to Russia

2014 (April 5 - May) Bundy Standoff

2014 (May 23) Isla Vista Killings

2014 (June 15) - Present - American-led intervention in Iraq

2014 (October 20) Murder of Laquan McDonald

2014 (December 17) "Cuban Thaw" warming of Cuba-US relations

2015-2019

2015 (April 12-18) Death of Freddie Gray & Baltimore Protests

2015 (June 26) Obergefell v. Hodges - Supreme Court Rules that Same-Sex Marriage legal

2015 (July 13) Death of Sandra Bland

2015 (October 1) Umpqua Community College Shooting

2015 (December 10) Every Student Succeeds Act replaces No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

2016 (January 2 - February 11) Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

2016 (July 7) Shooting of Dallas Police Officers

2016 (November) Donald Trump elected president / Mike Pence vice president

2017 (January 21) - Women's March

2017 (April 7) Shayrat Missle Strike

2017 (April 29) Murder of Jordan Edwards

2017 (August 12) Charlottesville Car Attack / Murder of Heather Heyer

2017 (Early September) Hurricane Irma Hits Florida Coast

2017 (September) Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico

2017 (October 1) Las Vegas Shooting

2017 (November 5) Sutherland Springs Church Shooting

2017 (December 4) Trump Orders Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Reduced in Size

2017 (December 6) Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as Capital of Israel

2018 (February 14) Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

2018 (April 14) Missle Strikes Against Syria (response to Douma chemical attack)

2018 (May 8) Trump orders United States Withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran Nuclear Deal) and Places Sanctions on Iran

2018 (May 18) Santa Fe High School Shooting

2018 (July 5) Amid Various Scandals, Scott Pruitt resigns from EPA

2018 (July 16) Russia–United States Summit in Helsinki

2018 (September 14) Hurricane Florence Makes Landfall

2018 (September 16) Border Patrol Serial Killer arrested in Texas

2018 (September 19) Mass Shooting: Middleton, Wisconsin

2018 (September 19) Mass Shooting: Masontown, Pennsylvania

2018 (September 20) Mass shooting: Rite Aid Distribution Center - Aberdeen Maryland

2018 (September 20) Mass Shooting: Syracuse, New York

2018 (October 10) Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida

2018 (December 12) Michael Cohen Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for his Role in Trump Hush-Money Scandal

2018 (December 12) David Pecker admits to hush-money payments made on Trump's behalf

2018 (Dec.22) - 2019 (Jan. 25) Longest U.S. government shutdown in history