USHAP 2016-17

When parents became increasingly concerned about their children using drugs, the hysteria over the war on drugs escalated when abuse prevent...

20 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the nation was horrified when on March 30th, 1981, current President Ronald R...

Thy My Lai Massacre was the killing of 504 civilians in South Vietnam by the US army on March 16, 1968 during the Vietnam War. When the inci...

The 1970s energy crisis came about when oil supply decreased substantially as conflict broke out in the Middle East. Events such as the Yom ...

The Weapon Agent Orange was created with a mixture of 2 herbicides: 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. The latter contains TCDD (tetrachlorodibenzo-p-diox...

The Weapon Napalm was used by US forces to effectively burn down sections of forests and weed out the guerrilla fighters hiding in the den...

The Watergate Scandal is arguably the most infamous political scandal in US history. Even the term "Watergate" has been synonymous...

Fidel Castro was born in Biran, Cuba, in 1926 as the third child of six. His father was a wealthy sugar plantation owner and his mother was ...

         The Teapot Dome is a Wyoming rock formation in the shape of a teapot near a oil reserve. The Teapot Dome Scandal was when Albert B....

       The Bolshevik Party, led by V. I. Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government on the night of November 6th, 1917. The Provisional...

       In Roosevelt's "New Deal," he focused on the 3 Rs, reform, relief, and recovery. Though they were all important to get ...

      Charles Ponzi was a financial criminal and used the Ponzi Scheme, now named after him, where he paid back investors who gave him milli...

On September 16th, 1920, a timed bomb hidden in a wagon exploded on Wall Street in front of the Assay Office. 100 pounds of dynamite under a...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was a hastened attempt to fight the Great Depression. Advocated by Willis Hawley, an Oregon congressman,...

With the finalization of the Treaty of Versailles to officially lay rest the "war to end all wars," the Allied countries created h...