2. Demonstrators dancing atop the Berlin Wall on November 10, 1989. The next day, crowds began dismantling it, in the most dramatic moment of the collapse of communist rule in eastern Europe.
20. The AIDS quilt, each square of which represented a person who had died of AIDS, on display in Washington, D.C. The quilt was exhibited throughout the country, heightening public awareness of the AIDS epidemic.
25. fig27_23.jpg The aftermath of the bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the worst act of terrorism in the United States during the twentieth century
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27. Election of 2000: Hanging chads anyone?? A member of a Florida election board trying to determine a voter’s intent during the recount of presidential ballots in November 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ordered the recount halted ensuring that George Bush won the presidency, though Al Gore won the Popular vote.
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Demonstrators dancing atop the Berlin Wall on November 10, 1989. The next day, crowds began dismantling it, in the most dramatic moment of the collapse of communist rule in eastern Europe. Credit: Associated Press, AP.
Page 1100: The AIDS quilt, each square of which represented a person who had died of AIDS, on display in Washington, D.C. The quilt was exhibited throughout the country, heightening public awareness of the AIDS epidemic. Credit: Reuters/Corbis.
The aftermath of the bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the worst act of terrorism in the United States during the twentieth century. Credit: Associated Press, The Daily Oklahoman, photo by Jim Argo.
A member of a Florida election board trying to determine a voter’s intent during the recount of presidential ballots in November 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ordered the recount halted. Credit: Reuters NewMedia Inc./Corbis.