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Unit 13 Key terms

  • Sierra club

    The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States.
  • Green peace

    Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Collapse of the soviet union

    In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries.
  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush
    George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States.
  • George W. Bush

    George Walker Bush is 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.
  • Kyoto Protocol

    is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • 3rd party candidates

    The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties (Republican Party and Democratic Party).
  • Donald Rumsfield

    Donald Henry Rumsfeld is an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld 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.
  • Bill Clinton

    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president
  • usa patriot act

    is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.
  • 9/11

    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area on September 11, 2001.
  • international criminal court

    is 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,[3] exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression).
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein
    Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.
  • Sonya Sotomayor

    Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice.
  • Osama bin Laden

    Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States
  • WTO

    deals with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows smoothly, predictably
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment

    was to save and create jobs almost immediately. Secondary objectives were to provide temporary relief programs for those most impacted by the recession and invest in infrastructure, education, health, and 'green' energy. The approximate cost of the economic stimulus package was estimated to be $787 billion at the time of passage, later revised to $831 billion between 2009 and 2019
  • Hilary Clinton

    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is 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