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Sierra Club
one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States -
George H. W. Bush
the 41st President of the United States -
Donald Rumsfield
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. -
George W. Bush
43rd president of the united states -
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. -
Hilary Clinton
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. As the wife of President Bill Clinton, she was also the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. -
Greenpeace
non-governmental[2] environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.[3] Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity"[4] and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues -
Third Party Candidates
allowed to take away votes. -
Collapse of Soviet Union
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That same evening at 7:32 P.M. the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian tricolor -
WTO
organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade -
Kyoto Protocol
international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. -
International Criminal Court
permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression -
9/11
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. -
USA PATRIOT Act
Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush -
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. -
Hurricane Katrina
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. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, -
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. Secondary objectives were to provide temporary relief programs for those most impacted by the recession and invest in infrastructure, education, health, and 'green' energy. -
Sonya Sotomayor
First Hispanic Supreme Court of the United States -
Osama Bin Laden
Founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.
