Event+Analysis

Project #3: **Event Analysis** Due date: _

Each student will be responsible to research a topic in recent history. You may choose from the list of topics below. If you choose a topic not on this page, it must be an important issue or event involving the U.S. between 1970 and the present. Only one person may research a topic and I must approve ALL topics. What to do after choosing a topic: In detail, answer the following questions: Who? What? When? Where? How? And if possible, why? (Explain the event as if the person you are speaking to doesn’t know anything about it) Then analyze the event(s), breaking down the decisions of those involved and describe the consequences of those actions and their impact on the world. The research papers will be a minimum of 5 full __typed double spaced pages. You must use a minimum of four sources. Quality research includes more than four. The sources__ MUST__ include one of each of the following: a periodical (magazines, newspapers), a book (Those things on the shelves that decorate the Library), and the use of one of the databases provided in the Library.

**TOPIC EXAMPLES** (1 person per topic on a first come first serve basis after ____________)

2. Elections of 1992 and 1996 3. The 2000 Election 4. U.S. Invasion of Grenada 5. U.S. invasion of Panama 6. The United States as the world’s peacekeeper. 7. The Iran-Contra Scandal 8. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) 9. Persian Gulf War (1990-91) 10. Whitewater 11. Watergate 12. The Siege at Waco, Texas 13. The Apollo Space Program 14. The Space Shuttle Program 15. Oklahoma City Bombing. 16. NASA’s Exploration of the Universe. 17. Assault Weapons/Hand Gun Control 18. The role of OPEC on the world ||< 19. Middle East: Camp David Accords 20. Middle East: Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, Israel 21. Terrorism: 1972, Munich Olympics 22. Terrorism: Iran Hostage Crisis. 23. Terrorism: September 11, 2001 24. The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden 25. The Patriot Act and Homeland Security 26. The Yugoslavian Civil War 27. The Internet: impact on the world 28. 1980’s MTV Generation 29. War on Terror: Afghanistan 2001-today 30. War on Terror: Invasion of Iraq, 2003 31. The Kennedy Family in Politics 32. The Bush Family in Politics 33. The Bailout 2008 34. The Budget Crisis 35. Social Media and America 36. Social Media and Revolution = = ||
 * < 1. NATO since the break up of the Soviet Union

Other Topics must be approved