1. American Presidents and British Prime Ministers
From today

2. British Prime Ministers

3. Tony Blair – Labour Party
Friends with Gordon Brown
Many British people hate him for following Bush into Iraq

4. Gordon Brown – Labour Party
Problems with economy because of global recession
British people angry again…so they voted for Conservative Party in 2010

5. David Cameroon – Conservative Party
2010-present
He is young so young British people like him
Very rich – family money

6. America! 

7. American Government 3 branches (3 parts)

8. #1 = Legislative branch Legislative – law makers
- Senate (100 people, 2 per state)
- House of Representatives (345 people, based on population, for example California has 53 because of high population)

9. House of Representatives

11. Highest Court = Supreme Court
#2 = Judicial Branch
Highest Court = Supreme Court

12. Important Cases Roe vs. Wade – 1973
women have the right to get an abortion
Brown vs. Board of Education
Made separate schools for black and white illegal

14. George H Bush - Republican
War
- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein attacked (America’s friend) Kuwait
Bush stopped Saddam’s attack, but Saddam continued to be president of Iraq until 2003
Maybe that’s why his son, George W. Bush invaded Iraq and 9/11 terrorist attacks

15. Bill Clinton - Democrat
Best president for economy
He got into big trouble because he had sex with a secretary and lied about it
Wife = Hillary Clinton, also powerful - Barack Obama’s Secretary of State (international issues)
Hillary Clinton

16. George W. Bush - Republican

17. George W. Bush vs. Al Gore Republican vs. Democrat
Election of 2000

18. Red = Republican, Blue = Democrat
Al Gore had more total votes
But American system is strange, total vote does not choose winner

19. Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore was boring during the election
But he became famous after losing the election for this movie
Topic = climate change
and global warming

20. George W. Bush won, but did he steal the election?
The country was 50/50 split … and Florida decided the winner
George Bush’s brother was Governor of Florida
In my opinion, Republicans are shady with elections
I don’t know exactly

21. Why did we fight the war in Iraq, instead of hunting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Father?
George H. Bush didn’t finish the job with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Oil money?
Vice President Dick Cheney
- his company, Halliburton, made A LOT of money
I DON’T KNOW

22. They said “We need war in Iraq because they have ‘weapons of mass destruction’”
But the UN did NOT find any weapons of mass destruction