1. American History 2000 - present

2. Y2K World is paranoid that technology will shut down.
People prepare for the “end of the world”.
Nothing happened.

3. Sept. 11, 2001
World Trade Center Towers and Pentagon are attacked by terrorists.
Leads to massive world-wide changes.

4. War on Terrorism begins
Oct. 7, 2001 – America declares war on the Taliban in Afghanistan.
March 20, 2003 – America declares war on Iraq.

5. Hurricane Katrina
Made landfall in Louisiana/Mississippi on August 29th, 2005.
New Orleans flooded, causing many people to relocate.
1, 836 people killed and many never found.

6. Flooding in New Orleans
Damage in Mississippi
Flooding in New Orleans

7. Hurricane Ike Made landfall in Galveston on Sept. 13, 2008.
Destroyed many homes along the Texas coast.

8. Financial Crisis
American economy begins to decline in 2008 and leads to a worldwide financial crisis.
Most of the blame falls on banks and other mortgage lenders who issued home loans to people with bad credit.
2013 – Government shutdown while they try to come to an agreement on federal deficit