Chapter 30: The Recent Past

Osama bin Laden

________ relocated al- Qaeda to Afghanistan after the country fell to the Taliban in 1996.

Joseph R Biden

In November 2020, ________, a longtime senator from Delaware and former Vice President under Barack Obama, running alongside Kamala Harris, a California senator who would become the nations first female vice president, convincingly defeated Donald Trump at the polls.

Trump

________ pushed for a massive wall along the border to supplement the fence built under the Bush administration.

Gulf War

After the conclusion of the ________ in 1991, American officials established economic sanctions, weapons inspections, and no- fly zones.

Obama administration

The ________ campaigned on little to specifically address the crisis and, faced with congressional intransigence, accomplished even less.

Iraq

When ________ invaded the small but oil- rich nation of Kuwait in 1990, Congress granted President Bush approval to intervene, laying the groundwork for intervention (Operation Desert Shield) in August and commenced combat operations (Operation Desert Storm) in January 1991.

Hussein

In 1998, a standoff between ________ and the United Nations over weapons inspections led President Bill Clinton to launch punitive strikes aimed at debilitating what was thought to be a developed chemical weapons program.

Afghanistan

Sheltered in ________ by the Taliban, the countrys Islamic government, al- Qaeda was responsible for a 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and a string of attacks at U.S. embassies and military bases across the world.

presidential race

In the 2016 ________, Republicans spurned their political establishment and nominated a real estate developer and celebrity billionaire, Donald Trump, who:

UNs Intergovernmental Panel

The ________ on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 1995 that there was a "discernible human influence on global climate.

Katrina

________ became a symbol of a broken administrative system, a devastated coastline, and irreparable social structures that allowed escape and recovery for some and not for others.

US Navy Sea

In May 2011, ________, Air and Land Forces (SEALs) conducted a raid deep into Pakistan that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Middle East

In his first term, Clinton set out an ambitious agenda that included an economic stimulus package, universal health insurance, a continuation of the ________ peace talks, welfare reform, and a completion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to abolish trade barriers between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

al Qaeda

On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen operatives of the ________ terrorist organization hijacked four passenger planes on the East Coast.

Tea Party

The ________ became a catch- all term for a diffused movement of fiercely conservative and politically frustrated American voters.

Bush

________ was attacked for the ongoing inability to contain the Iraqi insurgency or to find weapons of mass destruction, revelations of abuse by American soldiers, and the inability to find Osama bin Laden.

George H W Bushs election

________ signaled Americans continued embrace of Reagans conservative program and further evidenced the utter disarray of the Democratic Party.

Gitmo

________ "became infamous for its harsh treatment, indefinite detentions, and torture of prisoners.

Climate change

________ became a permanent and major topic of public discussion and policy in the twenty- first century.

Barack Obama

In 2012, ________ won a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.

Obama

________ won a convincing victory in the fall and became the nations first African American president.

Trump

________ and Clinton were the most unpopular nominees in modern American history, with most Americans viewing each candidate unfavorably.

Bush

________ advanced what was sometimes called the Bush Doctrine, a policy in which the United States would have the right to unilaterally and preemptively make war on any regime or terrorist organization that posed a threat to the United States or to U.S. citizens.

Bush

________ defended the War on Terror, and his allies attacked critics for failing to "support the troops.

By the 2008 election, with Iraq still in chaos, Democrats were ready to embrace the antiwar position and sought a candidate that shared similar views

Barack Obama

December 25th, 1991

When did the USSR dissolve?

Operation Desert Storm

The United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours

New Democrats

The __________________ were conservative Democrats

September 11th, 2001

On______________________, al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs

al-Qaeda

A radical Islamic militant group intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups

Bush Doctrine

The _____________________ was a policy in which the United States would have the right to unilaterally and preemptively make war on any regime or terrorist organization that posed a threat to the United States or to U.S. citizens

Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq

The _____________________ gave Bush the power to make war in Iraq

Guantanamo Bay

_______________________ was military prison in Cuba infamous for its harsh treatment, indefinite detentions, and torture of prisoners

Hurricane Katrina

_____________________ became a symbol of a broken administrative system

Great Recession

The __________________ was that took place between 2007 and 2009

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

______________________ adopted a heretofore conservative model of subsidized private care