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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
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in the election of 2000, ____ _____ was nominated by the Democratic Party
george w. bush
dick cheney
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in the election of 2000, _______ ___ ______ was nominated by the Republican Party and ____ ________ ran as his VP
bush v. gore
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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
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the _______ ______ _______ towers were struck by 2 hijacked flights
pentagon
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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
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_________ ____ ______ and ___-________ took responsibility for September 11 attacks
elaine chao
highest-ranking Asian-American woman to serve in government
department of homeland security
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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
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Bush defeated Senator _____ _____ of the Democratic Party in the election of 2004
john g. roberts jr.
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bush nominated _____ ___. ______ ___. for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
samuel a. alito jr.
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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
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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
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in the election of 2008, senator _____ _______ ran on the Republican ticket
barack obama
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in the election of 2008, _______ _______ ran on the Democratic ticket
joe biden
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____ ______ was selected as Obama’s VP (2008)
barack obama
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______ _______ 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
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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
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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
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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
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in the election of 2016, ______ ______ ran on the Democratic ticket
donald trump
mike pence
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in the election of 2016, _______ _______ ran on the Republican ticket; ____ _______ was his VP
trump
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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
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Trump nominated ____ _______ and _____ _________ to the Supreme Court
sharice davids
first Native American woman elected to Congress
impeached
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trump was the third president to be __________
america first
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Trump’s foreign policy was called “_______ ______”
USMCA (united states-mexico-canada agreement)
replaced NAFTA
kim jong-un
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Trump condemned North Korean dictator ____ _____-____
singapore summit
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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
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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
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_______ _________ 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
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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
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the _________ explosion (2003) suspended the space shuttle program for 2 years
atlantis
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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
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______ allowed for convenient access to the internet and cloud storage
social media
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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