1. Globalization
Chapter 32

2. Gore wins popular vote by 540,000
Election of 2000
George W. Bush vs. Al Gore
Gore wins popular vote by 540,000

3. Florida holds key to victory
Bush wins recount by less that 300 votes
Hanging chads and bubble ballots

5. 5 to 4 decision by Supreme court orders any recount must be finish by December 12
Court made ruling night of the 12th

8. McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Bill
Soft Money

10. The Steves

14. The Internet

15. Watson & Crick

16. Dolly
July 5, 1996

18. over 65 median age
% 28 %

19. Environment

20. Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

21. Write about the effects of toxic pesticides like DDT on fish, animals and humans
Jump starts the environmental movement

22. Love Canal

23. Three Mile Island

24. Prince William Sound, Alaska
Exxon Valdez
Prince William Sound, Alaska
March 24,1989
260,000 to 750,000 barrels

30. Challenger
January 28, 1986

32. Columbia
February 1, 2003

33. Crew of the Columbia

34. World Trade Organization meets in Seattle in 1999 to discuss trade issues
Protesters – 40,000 strong – attempt to disrupt meetings

35. WTO protest Seattle 1999

36. Rise of Fundamentalism & Terrorism
*Wahabism & Islamic Brotherhood
*Iran
*Mujahedeen/Al Qaeda 1988
*1983 Marine barracks-Lebanon
*1986 US bombs Libya for support of terrorism

37. *1993 truck bombing of World Trade Center
*1996 bombing by Al Qaeda of US barracks in Saudi – 19 dead
*1998 Bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania – 268 killed

38. *2000 USS Cole – 17 dead
*9/11
*2001 US invasion of Afghanistan to eliminate Taliban and locate Osama Bin Laden
*2003 US led coalition invades Iraq

40. Marine Barracks

41. US embassy in Tanzinia

44. May 2003

45. Financial Crisis
Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act cuts oversight on risky or fraudulent loans
ARM – adjustable rate mortgage
Jumbo loans – extends loans to people not able to pay them back

46. Housing Bubble – rapid rise in prices of homes due to demand
Prices fall, people with high mortgages can’t sell homes or pay back the loans – walk away
Government payments to financial institutions about to fail

47. Barak Obama & Joe Biden

48. John McCain & Sarah Palin

51. Obama Presidency
Affordable Care Act
Tea Party