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september 11, 2001

deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor

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2001-2014

Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan War)

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2003-2011

Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq War)

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2007-2009

Great Recession

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2017

Las Vegas Shooting (deadliest mass shooting in America)

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2011

end of space shuttle program

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george w. bush

2001-2009

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barack obama

2009-2017

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donald trump

2017-2021

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al gore

fill in the blank

in the election of 2000, ____ _____ was nominated by the Democratic Party

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  1. george w. bush

  2. dick cheney

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in the election of 2000, _______ ___ ______ was nominated by the Republican Party and ____ ________ ran as his VP

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bush v. gore

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in _____ ___ _____, Congress ruled recounts unconstitutional and Bush was declared the winner

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neoconservatism

often supported big governments and socialistic programs

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no child left behind (NCLB)

Bush’s education reform

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world trade center

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the _______ ______ _______ towers were struck by 2 hijacked flights

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pentagon

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American Airlines Flight 77 struck the _______ outside of Washington, DC

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united airlines flight 93

crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers regained control from the hijackers

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  • osama bin laden

  • al-qaeda

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_________ ____ ______ and ___-________ took responsibility for September 11 attacks

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elaine chao

highest-ranking Asian-American woman to serve in government

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department of homeland security

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bush created a new executive department, the _________ ___ _________ ________, to protect from threats within the US

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USA PATRIOT act

most important legislative response to 9/11

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operation enduring freedom (afghanistan war)

first campaign of the War on Terror

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taliban

Islamic authorities who controlled Afghanistan

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saddam hussein

dictator of Iraq

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operation iraqi freedom (iraq war)

the second campaign in the War on Terror (2003)

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2005

first free Iraqi election in 50 years

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  • hezbollah

  • hamas

2 Palestinian terrorist organizations against Israel

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condoleezza rice

Bush’s secretary of state; highest-ranking black American woman in the US

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bush doctrine

foreign policy of preemptive action on nations that threaten US safety

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john kerry

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Bush defeated Senator _____ _____ of the Democratic Party in the election of 2004

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john g. roberts jr.

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bush nominated _____ ___. ______ ___. for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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samuel a. alito jr.

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bush nominated _______ ___. ______ __. to fill Robert’s seat in the SC

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hurricane katrina

one of the most devastating and by far the costliest storm in history at the time (2005)

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housing bubble

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the lowering of interest rates cause real estate values to increase creating the ______ ________

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troubled asset relief program (TARP)

spending measure by the Bush administration to buy bad investments from failing companies until they improved

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secure fence act

Bush’s attempt to better secure the southern border with Mexico

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john mccain

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in the election of 2008, senator _____ _______ ran on the Republican ticket

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barack obama

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in the election of 2008, _______ _______ ran on the Democratic ticket

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joe biden

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____ ______ was selected as Obama’s VP (2008)

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barack obama

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______ _______ would become the 44th president and the 1st black American president

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michelle obama

Barack Obama’s first lady

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stimulus

Keynesian spending program intended to stimulate the economy

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ford

the only one of the “big three” motor companies who refused a government bailout during a crisis

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individual mandate

requirement that all Americans possess a minimum quality of health insurance or pay a fine

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affordable care act

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Obama signed the ________ ____ ____ also called “Obamacare” in 2010

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budget control act of 2011

raised the debt ceiling and established a congressional committee to negotiate a budget and cut spending

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deepwater horizon

oil rig that exploded and spilled almost 5 miles barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico

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  • DAPA

  • DACA

executive orders issued by Obama to defer deportation of alien parents of Americans and aliens brought as children

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living document

the idea that the Constitution should be reinterpreted to match what the justices perceive to be the culture of the present time

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sonia sotomayor

a justice appointed by Obama; first Hispanic-American in the Supreme Court and highest ranking Hispanic-American in government

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obergefell v. hodges

the 14th Amendment guaranteed the right of a person to marry someone of the same sex

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edward snowden

director of the NSA who leaked over 1 million files detaining surveillance programs of the US and her allies (NSA Surveillance Scandal)

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VA scandal

35 veterans died while on a waiting list in the Phoenix VA system

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hillary clinton

first secretary of state for President Obama

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islamic state in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

new terrorist organization that took control when America left Iraq

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operation inherent resolve

Obama’s campaign against ISIS

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drone strikes

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under the presidency of obama, one of his foreign policies was that he used the tactic of _____ ______ in war

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benjamin netanyahu

Israeli prime minister during Obama administration

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iran nuclear deal

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obama negotiated the ____ _____ ____

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arab spring

a series of Muslim countries rising up against their dictators

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benghazi scandal

terrorist attack on an American embassy dismissed as a riot by Secretary Clinton

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hillary clinton

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in the election of 2016, ______ ______ ran on the Democratic ticket

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  1. donald trump

  2. mike pence

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in the election of 2016, _______ _______ ran on the Republican ticket; ____ _______ was his VP

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trump

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at the time of his election, _____ was the oldest and wealthiest man to be elected

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trump v. hawaii

court case that ruled that the president was within his authority to restrict foreign nationals from entering the country

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  • neil gorsuch

  • brett kavanaugh

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Trump nominated ____ _______ and _____ _________ to the Supreme Court

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sharice davids

first Native American woman elected to Congress

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impeached

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trump was the third president to be __________

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america first

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Trump’s foreign policy was called “_______ ______”

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USMCA (united states-mexico-canada agreement)

replaced NAFTA

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kim jong-un

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Trump condemned North Korean dictator ____ _____-____

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singapore summit

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Trump and Kim Jong-Un met at the ________ _______

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jerusalem embassy act

officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv

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2018

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a new US embassy opened in the city of David in _____

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globalism

the perspective that the world needs to unite under one economic, political, and religious world order

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environmentalism

promotes preserving an environment’s natural setting above man’s benefit

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  • kyoto protocol

    • paris agreement

name two examples of environmentalism.

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postmodernism

rejects not only the truths of the past but also any moral framework; encourages people to live their own truths

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multiculturalism

all cultures ought to be equally represented

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  • political correctness

  • speech codes

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_______ _________ and _______ ______ required hypersensitivity toward anything that could be deemed offensive

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vermont

first state to legalize civil unions between homosexuals

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massachusetts

first to redefine marriage and issue marriage licenses for homosexual unions

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defense of marriage act (DOMA)

defined marriage between a man and a woman

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religious freedom restoration acts

state laws protecting the rights of Christians and other religious objectors to refrain from LGBTQ+ related events

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planned parenthood

abortion organization started by Margaret Sanger to reduce the number of black Americans and other inferior races in America

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partial birth abortion ban act

signed by G. W. Bush to stop partial birth abortions

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euthanasia

the killing of the elderly or infirm; led to the rise of physician assisted suicide first legalized by the state of Oregon

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oregon

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euthanasia was first legalized in the state of _______

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las vegas shooting

deadliest mass shooting in US history (2017)

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mcdonald v. chicago

the Supreme Court ruled that the right of a person to keep and bear arms applied to the state level

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columbia

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the _________ explosion (2003) suspended the space shuttle program for 2 years

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atlantis

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the landing of space shuttle _______ ended the space shuttle program

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voyager 1

first manmade object to leave the solar system

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space force

additional military branch added by President Trump (2019)

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spaceshipone

first craft to make a privately funded space flight (piloted by Mike Melvill)

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iphone

released by Apple in 2007

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wi-fi

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______ allowed for convenient access to the internet and cloud storage

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social media

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technology brought the rise of communication through ______ ______

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hydraulic fracturing

a technique that breaks underground rock to release and collect fossil fuel

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one world trade center (freedom tower)

opened in 2014 to commemorate 9/11