UNIT 13 KEY TERMS: 9/11

  • SIERRA CLUB

    SIERRA CLUB
    The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States.
  • DONALD RUMSFIELD

    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
  • SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS BORN

    SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS BORN
    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.
  • HILARY CLITON IS BORN

    HILARY CLITON IS BORN
    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.
  • OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS BORN

    OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS BORN
    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
  • SONYA SOTOMAYOR WAS BORN

    SONYA SOTOMAYOR WAS BORN
    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.
  • GREEN PEACE FOUNDED

    GREEN PEACE FOUNDED
  • GEORGE H. W. BUSH

    GEORGE H. W. BUSH
    HE WS THE 41ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNTED STATES.
  • FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION

    FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION
  • BILL CLINTON PRESIDENT

    BILL CLINTON PRESIDENT
    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.
  • WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION

    WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
  • KYOTO PROTOCOL

    KYOTO PROTOCOL
    The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The UNFCCC is an environmental treaty with the goal of preventing "dangerous" anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) interference of the climate system.[10] 191 countries (all UN members, except Andorra, Canada, South Sudan and the United States), as well as the European Union are Partie
  • GEORGE W. BUSH I PRESIDENT

    GEORGE W. BUSH I PRESIDENT
    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.
  • 9/11 ATTACK

    9/11 ATTACK
    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.
  • US PATROIT ACT

    US PATROIT ACT
    The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. The title of the act is a ten letter acronym (USA PATRIOT) that stands for Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.[1]
  • INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

    INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
    The International Criminal Court (commonly referred to as the ICC or ICCt)[2] 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)
  • HURRICANE KATRINA STRIKES.

    HURRICANE KATRINA STRIKES.
    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.
  • SADDAM HUSSEIN DIES

    SADDAM HUSSEIN DIES
  • AMERICAN RECOVERY REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2008

    AMERICAN RECOVERY REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2008
  • OSAMA BIN LADEN DIES

    OSAMA BIN LADEN DIES