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2000-2008

  • George W. Bush wins the 2000 Presidential election.

    George W. Bush wins the 2000 Presidential election.

    George W. Bush wins the 2000 Presidential election
  • Tax cut

    Signs a 1 trillion tax cuts
  • 911

    911

    Terrorists hijack four commercial airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and the Pennsylvania countryside.
  • Enduring Freedom

    Enduring Freedom

    President George W. Bush announced that airstrikes targeting Al-Qaeda and the Taliban had begun in Afghanistan.
  • stock market crash

    An outbreak of accounting scandals made the market crash in 2002
  • Homeland security

    Homeland security

    The United States Department of Homeland Security is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries
  • U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad

    U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad
  • Fall of Saddam Hussenin

    Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit falls to U.S. forces. President George W.
  • The United States re-elects George W. Bush

    The United States re-elects George W. Bush
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina was a large and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage
  • immigration protests

    the largest number of people gathered in over 100 cities in the United States to protest the proposed anti-immigrant legislation.
  • recession

    the U.S. economy was heading to a recession
  • deadly year

    2007 was the deadliest year yet for US forces in Iraq.
  • full-blown recession

    the U.S. economy was in a full-blown recession