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October 7, 2008: In the U.S., per the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation increased deposit insurance coverage to $250,000 per depositor. [152] During the 2008 global financial crisis, the BSE SENSEX experienced a sharp decline. It dropped from over 21,000 points in January 2008 to below 8,000 ...
World War I: the Ontario city of Berlin was renamed Kitchener [12] and the Saskatchewan town of Strassburg was renamed Strasbourg. [13] Cold War: the Ontario Stalin Township was renamed by Ontario legislature in 1986 to Hansen Township. [13] [14] United States: World War I: The German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog.
On 15 May 2015, President Petro Poroshenko signed a set of laws that started a six-month period for the removal of communist monuments (excluding World War II monuments) and renaming of public places named after communist-related themes. [18] [19] At the time, this meant that 22 cities and 44 villages would need to be renamed.
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2020. Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 17 deadliest countries 2014 – 2020 List guidelines
The Great Recession was the worst post-World War II contraction on record: [1] Real gross domestic product (GDP) began contracting in the third quarter of 2008, and by early 2009 was falling at an annualized pace not seen since the 1950s. [2]
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. [1]
Part of a continuing series in the Des Moines Register’s Iowa’s Book Ban Battle project. Several Iowa school districts have removed books on the Holocaust and World War II in their efforts to ...
Additionally as of September 2012, the long-term unemployment is the highest it had been since World War II, [84] and the unemployment rate peaked several months after the end of the recession (10.1% in October 2009) and was above 8% until September 2012 (7.8%).