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Sierra Club
One of the most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the US. It was founded by the Scottish conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president. The Sierra Club has hundreds of thousands of members in chapters located throughout the United States and is affiliated with Sierra Club Canada. -
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Greenpeace
a non-governmental environmental organization that serves in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam. Social and political advocacy organization that favors legislation with the goal of protectingthe environment. -
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st president of the U.S. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. Representatives from 11 Soviet Republics met in the Kazak city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States. Becoming the three Baltic republics. -
Sonia Sotomayor
Born in Bronx, New York. She became a U.S. District Court Judge in 1992 and was elevated to the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998. In 2009, she became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. -
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd President of The U.S. from 1993 to 2001. He is best known for the Bill Clinton Scandal. -
Hillary Clinton
Born in Chicago, Illinois. She served as first lady from 1993 to 2001, and then as a U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009. In early 2007, Clinton announced her plans to run for the presidency. She ran against Obama and Mccain in 2008. -
Third Party Candidates
Are politicians who are not in the two major parties (Democratic and Republican). They can sometimes spoil an electoin by causing a mainline party candidate to lose by taking away votes. -
WTO
World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization was officially made under the Marrakech Agreement. -
Kyoto Protocol
an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. But U.S rejects it because of the fact that it can undermine the U.S. governments authority. -
International Criminal Court
U.S. views as good due to credibility gained by following same rules as other nations, yet bad due to soldiers and officials of the U.S. being charged with war crimes in a court not with the U.S. legal system. -
Saddam Hussein
Born in al-Auja, Iraq. Was the fifth president of Iraq. He was in the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. -
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush was the 43rd president of the U.S. from 2001 to 2009. and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 -
USA PATRIOT Act
Stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. It significantly reduced restrictions in law enforcement agencies' gathering of intelligence within the United States. -
9-11
Was a series of attacks were aby terrorist launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area. The buildings that they were aiming at were: The World Trade Center, The White House, and The Pentagon. -
Osama Bin Laden
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. was the 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. -
Hurrican Katrina
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. It caused awareness to the US government to the poor engineering behind it. -
Donald Rumsfeld
Born in Chicago, Illinois. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Rumsfeld oversaw the U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan that resulted in the overthrow of the Taliban. The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was also toppled, and he initially earned praise for his handling of the war but resigned in 2006 after much criticism. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The AR&RA of 2009 was intended to improve economic conditions during a recession in the U.S.
