LT#1: Election 2000
This person was the Republican candidate for the Presidential Election of 2000.
Who is George W. Bush?
The number of planes that were hijacked during the 9/11 Terror Attacks.
What is Four? What are Four planes?
This type of terrorism is when a country funds and harbors/protects terrorist groups.
What is state sponsored terrorism?
The leader of Al-Qaeda who America was trying to capture and kill in Afghanistan.
Who is Osama Bin Laden?
This organization, created after 9/11, is in charge of monitoring air travel in the United States.
What is the Transportation Security Administration?
What is the TSA?
This person won the popular vote in the 2000 Presidential Election by over 500,000 votes.
Who is Al Gore?
The first two buildings that were targeted during the 9/11 Terror Attacks.
What are the Twin Towers?
What is the World Trade Center?
This is the word that George W. Bush used to describe Muslims.
What is/are friends?
This leader was captured, put on trial, and hung for "crimes against humanity" in Iraq.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This law was passed after 9/11 and was designed to increase government surveillance to prevent future acts of terrorism.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
What is the PATRIOT Act?
This state ultimately decided the Presidential Election of 2000 with it's 25 electoral college vote.
What/Where is Florida?
The number of victims killed during the 9/11 Terror Attacks.
What is 3,000?
What is 2,996?
This is who Osama Bin Laden targeted on 9/11 because they pay taxes and vote to elect leaders.
What are civilians?
What are citizens?
George W. Bush and his administration claimed that Iraq had stockpiles of these and would use them against the U.S.
What are Weapons of Mass Destruction?
What are WMDS?
This is a military prison that was established in 2002 in Cuba.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
This Supreme Court Case ultimately decided the Presidential Election of 2000.
What is Bush v. Gore?
This is the hijacked flight that was headed for the White House but crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
What is Flight 93?
The first major terrorist act that was broadcasted live to a global television audience.
What is/are the 1972 Olympic Games?
This is the group who is current ruling over Afghanistan.
What/Who are the Taliban?
This organization, created after 9/11, is responsible for protecting America from future acts of terrorism.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
What is the DHS?
This voting method caused extreme controversy after the Presidential Election of 2000.
What are Butterfly Ballots?
This is where the 19 hijackers that committed the 9/11 Terror Attacks were trained.
What/Where is Afghanistan?
A major terror event in 1979, a group of students kidnapped 52 Americans from the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
The number of people who were directly killed in the post 9/11 Wars on Terror.
What are 900,000 people?
This person worked in the army and leaked classified documents about the Wars on Terror to Wikileaks.
Who is Chelsea Manning?