Unit 13 Sydnie Kongslien

  • Sierra Club

    Sierra Club
    The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States.
  • George H W Bush

    George H W Bush
    1924-present American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States.
  • Donald Rumsfeld

    Donald Rumsfeld
    July 9, 1932- 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

    Saddam Hussein
    1937-2006 5th president of Iraq, hand chosen by United States, tried to take over Saudi Arabia, United States overpowered him.
  • George W Bush

    George W Bush
    July 6, 1946- 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.
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    August 19, 1946- 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.
  • Hilary Clinton

    Hilary Clinton
    October 26, 1947- 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.
  • Sonia Sotomayor

    Sonia Sotomayor
    June 25, 1954- 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 Laden
    March 10, 1957- May 2, 2011- 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.
  • 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.
  • Collapse of Soviet Union

    Collapse of Soviet Union
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration.
  • World Trade Organization

    World Trade Organization
    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade.
  • 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
  • 9/11

    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.
  • USA PATRIOT Act

    USA PATRIOT Act
    Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, created after 9/11.
  • International Criminal Court

    International Criminal Court
    ICC is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
  • Hurricane Katrina

    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.
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008

    American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008
    To respond to the late-2000s recession, the primary objective for ARRA was to save and create jobs almost immediately.
  • Third Party Candidates

    Third Party Candidates
    Took votes away from main republican and democratic opponents.