Chapter 32

Question 1

1. September 11, 2001

Answer 1

Al Qaeda planned a group of terrorist attacks that killed thousands of people when two passenger planes struck the twin towers in New York

Question 2

2. Bill Clinton

Answer 2

impeached, had an affair with Monica Lewinsky and was a president who balanced the National budget and created surplus in it

Question 3

3. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Answer 3

Bill Clinton’s First Lady. She created the healthcare program under Bill Clinton

Question 4

4. NAFTA

Answer 4

North American Free Trade Agreement, worked to bring free trade across the North American Continent

Question 5

5. White Water Affair

Answer 5

a real estate deal in which the Clintons invested during the ’70s brought out banking and real estate ventures that included the Clintons

Question 6

6. GATT

Answer 6

General Agreements on Tariff and Trade made worldwide trading easier by reducing tarrifs

Question 7

7. Newt Gingrich

Answer 7

Promoter of the “Contract with America” and the first Republican speaker in 40 years.

Question 8

8. Ross Perot

Answer 8

Ran on the independent ticket for the 1992 Presidential election -Harped incessantly on the problem of the federal deficit

Question 9

9. Monica Lewinsky

Answer 9

a White House intern who had an affair with president Bill Clinton

Question 10

10. Clinton Impeachment

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Lewinsky had an improper relationship, impeachment became an issueHouse narrowly approved 2 counts of impeachment; lying to the jury and obstructing justice

Question 11

11. Kosovo Intervention

Answer 11

A province of Serbian dominated Yugoslavia where a civil war broke out between them and Serbians

Question 12

12. Election of 2000

Answer 12

Al Gore verse George Walker Bush the election ended in a recount of votes from Florida

Question 13

13. Florida recount

Answer 13

Gore and Bush needed Florida to win where the votes were counted incorrectly, so the supreme court chose Bush by one vote

Question 14

14. Bush v. Gore

Answer 14

Supreme Court Case in which the supreme court ordered a recount of Florida’s votes by 12/12/2001 ,but the ruling was given on 12/12/2001

Question 15

15. Bush Tax Cuts

Answer 15

ended up favoring the wealthy, which made the tax cuts extremely controversial

Question 16

16. dot.com bubble

Answer 16

a speculative bubble in which the stock market grew super fast in the area of new information technologies on the world wide web, before crashing in 2000.

Question 17

17. Globalization

Answer 17

the process of the world becoming more alike, and includes things such as outsourcing

Question 18

18. Microsoft

Answer 18

the developers of the first Personal computer and its attaching software

Question 19

19. Apple Computer

Answer 19

called the Macintosh 2 and was Apple’s attempt at a personal computer

Question 20

20. Internet

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used to send graphics, pictures, and information world wide by linking computers togeter wirelessly

Question 21

21. DNA

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the basic structure of life, double helix ,through human geome project DNA tests were able to be used

Question 22

22. Rodney King Incident

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black man who fled the police after being beaten by them, the four white officers were acquitted in court

Question 23

23. OJ Simpson Trial

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OJ Simpson was accused of killing his wife and a black boy in Los Angeles and he was acquitted of charges

Question 24

24. HIV/AID

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product of HIV virus (transmitted through bodily fluids), worldwide epidemic, most people infected are in africa, product of increase in unsafe sex and sharing needles, effective treatments were found but expensive decreased in U.S. by 26,000 from 1995-2005

Question 25

25. Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Movements

Answer 25

Pro-Life: movement against abortion

Pro-choice: Movement that believed that a woman should have the right to decide when to have a child

Question 26

26. Global Warming

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the environmentalist idea that the polar caps of the earth were melting and would lead to climate change

Question 27

27. Islamic Fundamentalism

Answer 27

a network of Islamic terrorist organizations, led by Osama bin Laden

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28. Al Qaeda

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an islamic terrorist Organization lead by Osama Bin Laden and behind the September 11 attacks

Question 29

29. Guantanamo Prison

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anyone who was suspected to have connections of the Taliban was imprisoned here as a result of the September 11 attacks

Question 30

30. Iraq War

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a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, George W. Bush wanted to start war on the idea of 9/11 attacks and the rumor that Iraq had Nuclear weapons

Question 31

31. “Mission Accomplished”

Answer 31

George W. Bush’s speech to the American people stating why he wished to declare war.

Question 32

32. “No Child Left Behind”

Answer 32

an education reform that hoped that by pushing kids through the system improvement would happen

Question 33

33. Hurricane Katrina

Answer 33

a massive hurricane that destroyed much of the Gulf of Mexico, people were unhappy with how government helped the victims

Question 34

34. Recession of 2008

Answer 34

brought on by tax cuts to the wealthy, and was the worst economic recession since the 1930s

Question 35

35. Election of 2008

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Barack Obama vs John McCain Obama wanted to reduce troops in Iraq, increase taxes for wealthy.