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1990s to Present
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Third Party Canadidates
Can ruin a election by taking some of the votes away from the main canadidates -
International Criminal Court
a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression (although it cannot, until at least 2017, exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression). -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. -
Greenpeace
a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. -
George H. W. Bush
an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States. -
Bill Clinton
an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. -
Sierra Club
one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States. -
WTO
an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. -
Donald Rumsfield
served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. -
USA Patirot Act
significantly reduced restrictions in law enforcement agencies' gathering of intelligence within the United States -
9/11
The day terriost convicted a crime of terriosm and knocked down two twin towers -
Saddam Hussein
the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. -
Hilary Clinton
an American politician and diplomat who was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, serving under President Barack Obama. She was previously a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. -
George W. Bush
an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. -
Hurricane Katrina
the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. -
Soyna Sotomayor
the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice -
American REcovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama. -
Osama bin Laden
the founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, -
Kyoto Protocol
an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
