2005 in the United States

← → Events from the year 2005 in the United States.

January 20: George W. Bush , the 43rd president of the United States , begins his second term.
January 20: Dick Cheney , the 46th vice president of the United States , begins his second term.
March 15 : Unusually high precipitation in the winter of 2005 caused an ephemeral lake to occur in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley National Park .