APUSH Period 9: Reagan Era to Today

This is Los Angeles, on the Southern California coast. On election night, November 4, 1980, Ronald Reagan celebrated his landslide victory over incumbent president Jimmy Carter at the Century Plaza…

On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, president of the United States, was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. outside the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C. Reagan had just completed a…

Atlanta, Georgia, sits in the Piedmont — the rolling foothills on the eastern flank of the Appalachian Mountains, well inland from the Atlantic coast and north of the Gulf of Mexico. In June 1981…

Washington, D.C., sits on the Potomac River on the Atlantic coastal plain of the eastern United States, flanked to the west by the Appalachian Mountains and opening eastward toward the Chesapeake…

This event unfolded in Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, flanked to the west by the Appalachian Mountains. In…

Washington, D.C. — the U.S. capital on the Potomac River, nestled between the Appalachian foothills and the Atlantic coast — was where President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense…

Washington, D.C. — the federal capital of the United States, positioned on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard between the Appalachian Mountains and the eastern coast — is where President…

This speech took place at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany — an island of Western-aligned territory sitting entirely within Soviet-controlled East Germany, on the broad flat plain that…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain of eastern North America, roughly midway between the Appalachian Mountains to the west…

This is Berlin, the capital of Germany, sitting in the broad North European Plain between the Rhine basin to the west and the Oder River — the natural boundary with Poland — to the east. On November…

This is Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China — the immense paved plaza at the symbolic centre of the North China Plain, where the ancient imperial capital sits between the Taihang Mountains to the west…

This event unfolded in Moscow, Russia — the capital city sitting on the flat East European Plain, roughly equidistant between the Baltic Sea to the northwest and the Caspian Sea to the southeast, at…

Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait, sits on the northwestern corner of the Persian Gulf — exactly where the flat Arabian Peninsula meets the ancient river plains of Mesopotamia, with Iraq to the…

Los Angeles, California, USA — the vast Pacific-coast city nestled between the San Gabriel Mountains and the Pacific Ocean in the southwestern corner of North America — was the site of six days of…

This is Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia — perched on the Horn of Africa, the continent's sharp northeastern tip where the Indian Ocean meets the Gulf of Aden, directly south across the water from…

This breakthrough happened in Champaign, Illinois — a city sitting on the flat glacial plains of the American Midwest, well inland from both coasts, south of Lake Michigan and straddling the upper…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard where the Potomac River meets the fall line separating the Appalachian piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain. In…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the eastern seaboard of North America — the continent that stretches from the Arctic tundra of Canada in the north…

Dayton, Ohio, sits on a flat glacial plain west of the Appalachian Mountains — far from any coast, chosen precisely because it was neutral ground. On November 21, 1995, leaders from Bosnia, Croatia…

This is Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina — a city nestled in a mountain valley in the western Balkans, exactly where the rugged Dinaric Alps rise inland from the Adriatic and the…

San Jose, California, sits at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, nestled in the Santa Clara Valley between the Coast Ranges and the Pacific shore — the heart of what became known as Silicon…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Atlantic coastal plain along the Potomac River, roughly 100 miles inland from the Chesapeake Bay and east of the Appalachian Mountains…

Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard of North America — the low-lying tidal plain the title clue pointed toward. In…

Washington, D.C. sits on the banks of the Potomac River where it crosses the fall line between the Appalachian foothills and the flat Atlantic coastal plain — the exact inland limit where ocean-going…

Washington, D.C. sits precisely where the Potomac River crosses the fall line — the boundary where the rocky Appalachian Piedmont drops sharply onto the flat Atlantic coastal plain, creating the…

This is the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on the west bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C. — the five-sided military headquarters the title clue pointed toward. On…

This is New York City, on the northeastern coast of the United States, where the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic at one of the world's great natural harbours — exactly the dense island skyline…

Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, sits on the Atlantic seaboard of North America — wedged between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the tidal lowlands of the…

This is Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan — a city sitting in a high mountain valley of the Hindu Kush, deep in the heart of Central Asia, exactly where those rugged ranges seal the country off from…

This is a reclaimed field near Shanksville, in the Appalachian ridges of Somerset County, western Pennsylvania — the empty rural ground the title clue pointed toward. On September 11, 2001, United…

This is Baghdad, the capital of Iraq — a city built on the Tigris River in the flat, sun-baked lowlands of Mesopotamia, the ancient land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. In…

This is Chicago, on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in the American Midwest. On the night of November 4, 2008, Barack Obama delivered his presidential-election victory speech to a crowd of…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the northeastern seaboard of North America — on the Atlantic coastal plain just east of the Appalachian Mountains, near where the Potomac…

Washington, D.C., sits on the Potomac River on the low Atlantic coastal plain, tucked between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east — exactly the geography hinted…

Ferguson, Missouri sits just north of St. Louis where the Missouri River meets the Mississippi, deep in the interior of North America between the Appalachian Mountains to the east and the Rocky…

Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital sited on the Potomac River where the flat Atlantic coastal plain rises toward the Appalachian foothills, was where the Supreme Court delivered a landmark 2015…