Chapter 41 - America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era

Guantanamo Detention Camp

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

BP's Deepwater Horizon platform

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

Osama bin Laden

Was killed by American forces in Pakistan in 2011

Bush

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

Clinton

________ called for accepting homosexuals in the armed forces.

Barack Obama

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

Obama

________ had withdrawn all American combat troops from Iraq by 2011.

Newt Gingrich

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

Sunni

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

radical Muslim group

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

Dont Ask Dont Tell

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

Patriot Act

Congress passed the ________ in 2001.

economic recession

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

Obama

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

Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Overtook the nations financial regulatory system

Gore

________ supported smaller tax cuts and strengthening Social Security.

Tea Party

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

Terrorists

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

American economy

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

U.S.

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

North American Free Trade Agreement

________ (NAFTA) was passed in 1993.

Clinton

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

Bush

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

Obama

Won the presidential election of 2008

Clinton

________ beat the Republican candidate in the election of 1996.

Obama

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

Bush

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

Clinton

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

Bush

________ appointed two new conservative justices to the Supreme Court.

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

Bush

________ supported the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002.

Bush

________ strongly opposed welfare programs and environmentalist policies.