Chapter 41 - America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era

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Guantanamo Detention Camp

Was created on the American military base located in Cuba with the purpose of holding captured Taliban fighters from Afghanistan

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BP's Deepwater Horizon platform

Exploded the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, pouring billions of gallons of oil into the Gulf

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Osama bin Laden

Was killed by American forces in Pakistan in 2011

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Bush

________ supported a constitutional amendment for banning gay marriage and was in opposition of stem cell research.

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Clinton

________ called for accepting homosexuals in the armed forces.

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Barack Obama

Beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nomination for the election of 2008

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Obama

________ had withdrawn all American combat troops from Iraq by 2011.

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Newt Gingrich

Led Republicans on an attack of Clintons liberal failures with a conservative "Contract with America "in 1994

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Sunni

There was violence between ________ and Shia Muslims with Sunnis being the minority and having power under Saddam.

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radical Muslim group

A(n) ________ bombed the World Trade Center in New York, killing six people on February 26, 1993.

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Dont Ask Dont Tell

Obama helped repeal the militarys "________ "policy in 2010.

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Patriot Act

Congress passed the ________ in 2001.

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economic recession

Attacks on September 11 coincided with the beginning of a(n) ________.

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Obama

Supported a healthcare reform bill in 2010, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Overtook the nations financial regulatory system

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Gore

________ supported smaller tax cuts and strengthening Social Security.

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Tea Party

Emerged in 2019 as a right-wing, ultra Republican party

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Terrorists

________ hijacked four aircrafts and crashed them into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and rural Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.

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American economy

________ prospered during Clintons era, largely due to the global economic expansion.

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U.S.

Invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003 with Britain as the U.S.s only major ally

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North American Free Trade Agreement

________ (NAFTA) was passed in 1993.

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Clinton

________ committed American troops to NATO in order to the keep the peace in former, Yugoslavia.

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Bush

Made a speech on May 1, 2003, claiming that major combat operations in Iraq were complete

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Obama

Won the presidential election of 2008

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Clinton

________ beat the Republican candidate in the election of 1996.

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Obama

Supported the passage of the American Relief and Recovery Act in order to jumpstart the economy

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Bush

________ created the "axis of evil "in January of 2002.

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Clinton

________ fought for two domestic issues during his second term which consisted of the fight against tobacco companies and the fight for gun control.

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Bush

________ appointed two new conservative justices to the Supreme Court.

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Bush

Supported returning the federal budget surplus back to the people through tax cuts and giving money to private institutions that could help those in need

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Bush

________ supported the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002.

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Bush

________ strongly opposed welfare programs and environmentalist policies.

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