The 2000 Election
What was the outcome of the 2000 election?
George W. Bush defeated Al Gore despite losing the popular vote.
How many hijackers took part in the 9/11 attacks?
20
What event opened the door for the implementation of the Bush Doctrine?
The 9/11 attacks
Who was the dictator of Iraq?
Saddam Hussein
Which was the first non-white guy to be elected president?
Obama
What were the controversies around the design of ballots in Florida?
Hanging & dimpled chads
The butterfly ballot design
What terrorist organization were the hijackers members of?
Al-Qaeda
Which 2 countries did the U.S. invade in connection to the ideas of the Bush Doctrine?
Afghanistan & Iraq
Why did America invade Afghanistan?
Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11 & the Taliban worked with them & allowed them to be based in Afghanistan.
Who was the first president to be impeached twice by Congress?
Trump
What were the electoral process controversies?
The Electoral College is what determines the next president, not the popular vote.
Purging of people from voter rolls who should not have been removed
Who was the head of Al-Qaeda?
Osama Bin Laden
What was the basic argument of the Bush Doctrine?
The Bush Doctrine argued that America must defend itself outside of her shores, attacking first, even when a threat was not imminent. The U.S. must be willing to act alone & aggressively bring democracy to other nations as a way to ensure friendly nations & American safety.
What did U.S. officials argue was the reason America had to invade Iraq?
U.S. officials argued Saddam Hussein could not be trusted to NOT give chemical or biological weapons to terrorists like Osama Bin Laden despite no evidence of the Iraqi government having any connections to terrorists
Who renegotiated trade agreements with Mexico, Canada, China, Japan, and South Korea and was the first president to meet with Kim-Jong Un of North Korea?
Tump
What were the legal controversies related to the 2000 election?
Legal challenges to recounts in certain counties
The Supreme Court effectively ruled the recount should stop, benefitting one candidate over the other.
How many died in the attacks?
2,977 people
What were some key impacts of the Bush Doctrine?
U.S. began its global “War on Terror”. Criticism of U.S. conduct from both rivals & allies, the growth of anti-American sentiment.
What made the withdrawal from Afghanistan controversial?
13 U.S. military personnel were killed during in what became a chaotic withdrawal
American was caught off guard at how quickly the Afghan government collapsed.
What was piece of climate legislation Pres. Obama signed into law?
Had the first-ever national limit on carbon pollution
His work with China led to a long-sought global agreement among 195 nations to reduce climate pollution.
Mandated cleaner cars and trucks.
Due to the butterfly ballots design in Palm Beach County, 4,000 people likely mistakenly voted for whic 3rd party candidate instead of Al Gore?
Pat Buchanan
What were the targets of the hijacked planes?
The World Trade Center
The Pentagon
Likely either the Capitol Building or the White House
What group was already advocating in the U.S. for the policies that would become the Bush Doctrine BEFORE the 9/11 attacks?
Neoconservatives
What has been the global impact of the Iraq invasion for America?
As people could not predict how catastrophic it would turn out, U.S relations with the Arab world have suffered and war lost its currency for change.
Whose Recovery Act injected about $800 billion into the economy through tax incentives, infrastructure investment, aid for low-income worker. The goal was reducing unemployment and avert further economic challenges from the Great Recession.
Obama