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Turning Points In U.S. History

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Turning Points in U.S. History is a series designed to provide a clear overview of the people and events that became significant pivotal points in history. Rare archival footage and photographs, authentic recordings, and other primary source documents bring history to life, while stunning graphics and engaging narration lend context and clarity to the subject.

Episodes:

• 20th Century - Program 7

  1964: Pres. Johnson announces the Great Society. 1964: Vietnam War, Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 1965: black urban riots begin. 1968: Vietnam War-Tet Offensive. 1970: first Earth Day. 1972: Watergate. 1973: Vietnam War ends.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Mar 21st, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:48
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 20th Century - Program 8

  1973: Second Battle of Wounded Knee. 1973: Roe v. Wade. 1976: personal computers herald the Post Industrial Age. 1983: Grenada Conflict. 1987: Alan Greenspan becomes Chairman of the Federal Reserve. 1990: Gulf War demonstrates American military supremacy. 1991: End of the Cold War. 1994: Whitewater leads to the impeachment of President Clinton. 1999: Y2K ends the American Century.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Mar 28th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:11
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 21st Century (2000 - 2001)

  The first two years of the decade brought about the George W. Bush presidency, a presidency that was defined by September 11th 2001, the first attack on American soil since the War of 1812. 2001 was also the year that began the second digital revolution. 2000: America Has a Contested Presidency. 2001: 9/11. 2001: Apple Computer Debuts the iPod.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Apr 4th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:26
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 21st Century (2002 - 2004)

  The years between 2002 and 2004 ushered in America's first pre-emptive war, saw the human genome project jump start the biotech revolution and Google monetize the Internet. 2003 - Gulf War II; 2003 - Human Genome Project Completed; 2004 - Google Redefines the Internet.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Apr 11th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:33
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 21st Century (2005 - 2007)

  The middle years of the first decade of the 21st century were a time of great social change, as America's failing infrastructure was exposed, performance enhancing drugs damaged sports; illegal immigrants made up as much as a tenth of the population; and the Internet redefined how people connect with each other. 2005 - Hurricane Katrina Exposes America's Failing Infrastructure; 2005 - Congress Investigates Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports; 2005 - Blogging and YouTube Challenge Traditional Media; 2006 - Virtual Social Networking: Facebook, MySpace and Twitter; 2007 - Illegal Immigration Hits 11 Million.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Apr 18th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:54
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 21st Century (2007 - 2009)

  The end of the decade of the 21st century was the best of times and the worst of times. Finally, America understood the consequences of global warming; a sea change occurred when it elected a Black president, but in the end, it faced disaster when the subprime mortgage debacle almost brought the financial system to its knees. 2007 - Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Work on Climate Change; 2008 - Barack Obama Wins Presidency; 2009 - America Responds to a Deep Recession.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Apr 25th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:38
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 21st Century (2009 - 2012)

  During the first term of Barack Obama Americans saw the rise of Hispanic women in the U.S. justice system, the Affordable Care Act, the devastating impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and an historic manhunt ended with the take down of Osama Bin Laden. Chapter List 1.) 2009 - Sonia Sotomayor Becomes First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice 2.) 2010 - President Obama Signs Health Reform into Law 3.) 2010 - Deepwater Horizon Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico 4.) 2011 - U.S. Navy SEALs Take Down Osama Bin Laden 5.) 2012 - Washington and Colorado Legalize Marijuana 6.) 2012 - The Privatization of Space

  Next Airing:	Fri, May 2nd, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:27:28
  Usage rights:	Expires 6/30/2034

• 21st Century (2012 - 2015)

  Disruptions to American business and lifestyle continued in the next four years with great strides in Artificial Intelligence, the rise of the sharing economy, the fracking boom, renewed threats from abroad by a new brand of Islamic terrorists and the breakthrough of same-sex marriage in gay rights. Chapter List 1.) 2012 - Google's Deep Learning Machine Recognizes Cats on Its Own 2.) 2013 - Netflix's Reed Hastings Produces House Of Cards 3.) 2013 - Sharing Economy Pioneers Airbnb and Uber 4.) 2014 - Fracking Pushes America Towards Energy Independence 5.) 2014 - Rise of ISIS Presents New Foreign Policy Challenges 6.) 2015 - U.S. Supreme Court Allows Same-Sex Marriage 7.) 2015 - Over Two Thirds of Americans Own Smartphones

  Next Airing:	Fri, May 9th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:29:19
  Usage rights:	Expires 6/30/2034

• 21st Century (2015 - 2017)

  In just three years, disruptors in American politics, economics and cyber security change America more quickly than two world wars and the Industrial Age, while at the same time a long awaited museum devoted to African American history opens and America elects Donald Trump as its 45th President. Chapter List 1.) 2015 - Economic Disruptors: Wikipedia and Craigslist 2.) 2016 - NFL Announces $100 Million Concussion Initiative 3.) 2016 - Lonnie Bunch Opens National Museum of African American History and Culture 4.) 2017 - Edward Snowden, Cyber Security and Personal Digital Assistance 5.) 2017 - Donald J. Trump Becomes the 45th President of the United States 6.) 2017 - UBI, Universal Basic Income

  Next Airing:	Fri, May 16th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:29
  Usage rights:	Expires 6/30/2034

• 2017 - 2020

  2017 - 2020 - In schools, students study History and American History, focusing on 21st century American History in this eighth program of 21st century turning points in American History (2015-2020). Chapter List 2017 Drones Become Part of Ordinary Life in America 2017 Self-Driving Trucks Hit The Road 2017 Over Half of Americans Listen to Podcasts 2017 Bitcoin Reaches a Value of $19,783 2018 China Challenges America's Economic and Technological Superiority 2019 President Donald J. Trump is Impeached 2019 Quantum Computers Become Practical 2020 A Pandemic Devastates the United States

  Next Airing:	Fri, May 23rd, 2025 at 9:00 AM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:56
  Usage rights:	Expires 6/30/2034

• 20th Century - Program 1

  1900: Gold Standard Act is ratified by Congress; 1901: Dr. Walter Reed discovers Yellow Fever is transmitted by mosquitoes; 1901: McKinley is shot and Theodore Roosevelt becomes president. 1902:140, 000 mine workers go out on strike. 1902: government passes the Newlands Reclamation Act. 1903: Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk. 1906: Upton Sinclair's Novel "The Jungle" is published. 1906: U.S. takes over construction of the Panama Canal. 1907: Frank Lloyd Wright completes the Robie House in Chicago.

  Length:	00:28:07
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 20th Century - Program 2

  1908: Ford introduces the Model T. 1909: W.E.B. Du Bois founds the NAACP. 1911: Hollywood founded. 1913: 16th Amendment allows progressive income tax. 1913: 17th Amendment caps a period of election reforms. 1914: Clayton Anti - Trust Act passed 1914-17 America prepares for World War I. 1917: America enters World War I.

  Length:	00:28:03
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 20th Century - Program 3

  1919: Prohibition begins. 1920: women gain the vote. 1923: Teapot Dome Scandal typifies the Roaring 20's. 1924: J. Edgar Hoover heads FBI. 1925: Scopes Monkey Trial. 1926: Goddard initiates Space Age. 1926: David Sarnoff founds NBC. 1927: Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

  Length:	00:26:53
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 20th Century - Program 4

  1929:"Black Tuesday" foretells the Great Depression. 1932: Amelia Earhart: record-breaking woman aviator. 1933: President Roosevelt's "One Hundred Days" begins his New Deal. 1935: President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. 1936: Jesse Owens and Joe Louis debunk Hitler's claim of Aryan superiority. 1940: Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is published. 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

  Length:	00:28:03
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 20th Century - Program 6

  1953: John Foster Dulles becomes Eisenhower's Cold War Warrior 1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy is condemned by the Senate 1954: Brown v. Board of Education 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested, 1960: Nixon-Kennedy televised debates, 1962: Astronaut John Glenn is the first American to orbit the earth, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1963: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

  Length:	00:27:46
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

• 2oth Century - Program 5

  1944: D-Day "Operation Overlord". 1945: US Air Force drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 1947: Marshall Plan for Europe. 1950: Pres. Truman sends American troops to the aid of South Korea. 1950-53: The Korean War. 1951: Alan Freed introduces Rock and Roll.

  Length:	00:27:35
  Usage rights:	1/1/2008 to 6/30/2034

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