chapter 30

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september 11, 2001

deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor

2001-2014

Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan War)

2003-2011

Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq War)

2007-2009

Great Recession

2017

Las Vegas Shooting (deadliest mass shooting in America)

2011

end of space shuttle program

george w. bush

2001-2009

barack obama

2009-2017

donald trump

2017-2021

al gore

fill in the blank

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

1. george w. bush

2. dick cheney

fill in the blank

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

bush v. gore

fill in the blank

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

neoconservatism

often supported big governments and socialistic programs

no child left behind (NCLB)

Bush’s education reform

world trade center

fill in the blank

the _______ ______ _______ towers were struck by 2 hijacked flights

pentagon

fill in the blank

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

united airlines flight 93

crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers regained control from the hijackers

• osama bin laden

• al-qaeda

fill in the blank

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

elaine chao

highest-ranking Asian-American woman to serve in government

department of homeland security

fill in the blank

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

USA PATRIOT act

most important legislative response to 9/11

operation enduring freedom (afghanistan war)

first campaign of the War on Terror

taliban

Islamic authorities who controlled Afghanistan

saddam hussein

dictator of Iraq

operation iraqi freedom (iraq war)

the second campaign in the War on Terror (2003)

2005

first free Iraqi election in 50 years

• hezbollah

• hamas

2 Palestinian terrorist organizations against Israel

condoleezza rice

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

bush doctrine

foreign policy of preemptive action on nations that threaten US safety

john kerry

fill in the blank

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

john g. roberts jr.

fill in the blank

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

samuel a. alito jr.

fill in the blank

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

hurricane katrina

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

housing bubble

fill in the blank

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

troubled asset relief program (TARP)

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

secure fence act

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

john mccain

fill in the blank

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

barack obama

fill in the blank

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

joe biden

fill in the blank

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

barack obama

fill in the blank

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

michelle obama

Barack Obama’s first lady

stimulus

Keynesian spending program intended to stimulate the economy

ford

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

individual mandate

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

affordable care act

fill in the blank

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

budget control act of 2011

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

deepwater horizon

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

• DAPA

• DACA

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

living document

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

sonia sotomayor

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

obergefell v. hodges

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

edward snowden

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

VA scandal

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

hillary clinton

first secretary of state for President Obama

islamic state in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

new terrorist organization that took control when America left Iraq

operation inherent resolve

Obama’s campaign against ISIS

drone strikes

fill in the blank

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

benjamin netanyahu

Israeli prime minister during Obama administration

iran nuclear deal

fill in the blank

obama negotiated the ____ _____ ____

arab spring

a series of Muslim countries rising up against their dictators

benghazi scandal

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

hillary clinton

fill in the blank

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

1. donald trump

2. mike pence

fill in the blank

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

trump

fill in the blank

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

trump v. hawaii

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

• neil gorsuch

• brett kavanaugh

fill in the blank

Trump nominated ____ _______ and _____ _________ to the Supreme Court

sharice davids

first Native American woman elected to Congress

impeached

fill in the blank

trump was the third president to be __________

america first

fill in the blank

Trump’s foreign policy was called “_______ ______”

USMCA (united states-mexico-canada agreement)

replaced NAFTA

kim jong-un

fill in the blank

Trump condemned North Korean dictator ____ _____-____

singapore summit

fill in the blank

Trump and Kim Jong-Un met at the ________ _______

jerusalem embassy act

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

2018

fill in the blank

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

globalism

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

environmentalism

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

• kyoto protocol

  • paris agreement

name two examples of environmentalism.

postmodernism

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

multiculturalism

all cultures ought to be equally represented

• political correctness

• speech codes

fill in the blank

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

vermont

first state to legalize civil unions between homosexuals

massachusetts

first to redefine marriage and issue marriage licenses for homosexual unions

defense of marriage act (DOMA)

defined marriage between a man and a woman

religious freedom restoration acts

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

planned parenthood

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

partial birth abortion ban act

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

euthanasia

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

oregon

fill in the blank

euthanasia was first legalized in the state of _______

las vegas shooting

deadliest mass shooting in US history (2017)

mcdonald v. chicago

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

columbia

fill in the blank

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

atlantis

fill in the blank

the landing of space shuttle _______ ended the space shuttle program

voyager 1

first manmade object to leave the solar system

space force

additional military branch added by President Trump (2019)

spaceshipone

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

iphone

released by Apple in 2007

wi-fi

fill in the blank

______ allowed for convenient access to the internet and cloud storage

social media

fill in the blank

technology brought the rise of communication through ______ ______

hydraulic fracturing

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

one world trade center (freedom tower)

opened in 2014 to commemorate 9/11