Unit 13 Key Terms

  • Sierra Club

    Sierra Club
    Greenpeace is 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

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

    Donald Rumsfield
    an American politician and businessman. he served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein
    was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush
    George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States
  • Hilary Clinton

    Hilary Clinton
    an American politician and diplomat who was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013
  • Sonya Sotomayor

    Sonya Sotomayor
    an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Osama bin Laden

    Osama bin Laden
    as the founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States
  • Collapse of Soviet Union

    Collapse of Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union seperated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was seen by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
  • USA Patriot Act

    USA Patriot Act
    "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001."
  • 9/11

    9/11
    he 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.
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008

    American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008
    an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress
  • Kyoto Protocol

    Kyoto Protocol
    The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
  • third party candidates

    third party candidates
    A political party organized as opposition to the existing parties in a two-party system.
  • Greenpeace

    Greenpeace
    Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • International Criminal Court

    International Criminal Court
    a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression
  • WTO

    WTO
    The World Trad Organization is an international body founded in 1995 to promote international trade and economic development by reducing tariffs and other restrictions.