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| 11310522842 | Dick Cheney | VP under George W. Bush (01-09); oversaw the 1991 operation desert storm under GHWBush; considerable influence in the Iraq War (Hussein and wmd; "enhanced interrogation") | 0 | |
| 11310522843 | Donald Rumsfeld | Secretary of Defense under G.W.Bush, wanted the US to start the War in Iraq, headed the invasion of Afghanistan, coined the terms "War on Terror," and "Weapons of Mass Destruction" | 1 | |
| 11310522844 | September 11, 2001 | AI-Qaeda terrorists, living in the U.S., hijacked several commercial airliners and crashed them into the Pentagon and World Trade Center. | 2 | |
| 11310522845 | al Qaeda | Islamist terrorist organization that launched a series of attacks against U.S. | 3 | |
| 11310522846 | Osama bin Laden | Founder of al Qaeda, the terrorist network responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other attacks. | 4 | |
| 11310522847 | Taliban | A group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996 | 5 | |
| 11310522848 | Guantanamo Bay | Military base granted to the US in Cuba which is now used as a prison; housed possible Arab terrorists | 6 | |
| 11310522849 | Transportation Security Administration | federal agency created two months after the 9/11 attack on America; developed to take over the security screening functions for all commercial flights in the US. | 7 | |
| 11310522850 | Patriot Act | controversial law passed by Congress after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspected terrorists; surveillance on persons in US | 8 | |
| 11310522851 | Department of Homeland Security | established as the newest member of the cabinet with the goal to secure America; created after 9/11 | 9 | |
| 11310522852 | Saddam Hussein | President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003. | 10 | |
| 11310522853 | Neoconservatives | considered the Iraq war essential for the future security of the United States, necessary even if he did not have weapons of mass destruction, because his was a dangerous and aggressive government. | 11 | |
| 11310522854 | Bush Doctrine | A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad. | 12 | |
| 11310522855 | WMD | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) | 13 | |
| 11310522856 | Iraq civil war | Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Kurds | 14 | |
| 11310522857 | Bush tax cuts | in 2001 and 2003, 2 enormous tax cuts primarily benefiting very wealthy tax payers that most Americans supported | 15 | |
| 11310522858 | No Child Left Behind | An act intended to help ensure that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state academic standards and assessments; relies on standardized testing; cuts federal aid to "failing schools" | 16 | |
| 11310522859 | Abu Ghraib | One of Saddam's most notorious prisons for dissenters; when Americans took over, it became notorious for a place of torment, humiliation and torture for detainees | 17 | |
| 11310522860 | enhanced interrogation | Another word for torture, started by Bush; use of electric shock and waterboarding | 18 | |
| 11310522861 | Nuclear Proliferation | the spread of nuclear weapons to new nations | 19 | |
| 11310522862 | Kim Jong Il | He was North Korea's dictator and died in December 2011; initiated North Korea's nuclear program | 20 | |
| 11310522863 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Current president of Iran; Iran's nuclear program | 21 | |
| 11310522864 | Vladimir Putin | 2000-2008; president of Russia; former KGB officer; promotes capitalism; current prime minister | 22 | |
| 11310522865 | global warming | An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes). | 23 | |
| 11310522866 | Kyoto Accords | international climate treaty; 2001, US did not sign | 24 | |
| 11310522867 | Sonia Sotomayor | Appointed by President Obama in 2009, first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice | 25 | |
| 11310522868 | Hurricane Katrina | Considered to be the one crisis of the Bush administrations second term and its inefficiency to deal with the crisis. It destroyed 80% of New Orleans and more than 1300 people died, while the damages were $150 billion. | 26 | |
| 11310522869 | subprime mortgages | granted to borrowers whose credit history is not sufficient to get a conventional mortgage. Often these borrowers have impaired or no credit history. Cause of stock market decline and collapse of home-loan agencies; financial crisis of 2008 | 27 | |
| 11310522870 | Hillary Clinton | Former Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady; once (and future?) front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination | 28 | |
| 11310522871 | Barack Obama | 2008; Democrat; first African American president of the US, health care bill; removing troops from Iraq, strengthened numbers in Afghanistan; repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell; controversial use of drones | 29 | |
| 11310522872 | John McCain | Veteran reform-minded senator who won the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008 | 30 | |
| 11310522873 | Affordable Care Act | Obamacare, sets up medical insurance for people who can't afford it. | 31 | |
| 11310522876 | Al Gore | vice president for Bill Clinton; In 2000 he won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college vote; author of "An Inconvenient Truth" (concerns of global warming) | 32 |
