George W. Bush

2000 Election

• Gore vs. Bush• 3rd party cut into the votes of the major parties• Florida recounts• Electoral college vs popular vote• Supreme Court decided

No Child Left Behind

• Education policy• Test all students in math and English from 3rd to 8th

grade.

9/11

• Attack by Al-Qaeda• 4 targets – WTC, Pentagon, White House?• Greatest loss of life since Pearl Harbor

US Patriot Act

• Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism

• Deter and punish terrorist acts in the US• Expand law enforcement powers

Financial Crisis

• Speculation in the housing market• Mortgages and loans to people who could not afford

them.• Growth of globalization• Foreclosures• Threat of bank failures

Hurricane Katrina

• Levee failure in Louisiana• Failure of Louisiana government response

War on Terror

• Defeat terrorists- Bin Laden and Al-Zarqwai• Defend US citizens and interests in the world• Defeat terrorist organizations

Kyoto Protocol

• Opposed• World Initiative to cut pollution• Would have cost US money and jobs

War in Iraq

• Saddam Hussein refuses to allow UN inspectors in to Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction.

• US invades• Airstrikes and then land invasion• Hussein captured, tried and executed• US continued to fight against Hussein supporters

Barak Obama

2008 Election

• 1st African American President

Affordable Care Act

• Healthcare bill• Everyone is required to have healthcare

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

• Economic stimulus to create jobs, promote investment, and increase spending.

• A fix for the economic crisis

Global War on Terror

• Secret mission into Pakistan to get Osama Bin Laden.