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________ had withdrawn all American combat troops from Iraq by 2011.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