Unit 13 Timeline

  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush
    George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States.
  • Donald Rumsfeld

    Donald Rumsfeld
    Donald Henry Rumsfeld is an American politician and businessman. 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
  • Saddam Hussain

    Saddam Hussain
    Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush
    George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president.
  • Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton
    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is 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.
  • Sonia Sotomayer

    Sonia Sotomayer
    Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice
  • Osama Bin Laden

    Osama Bin Laden
    Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden 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
  • Green Peace and Sierra Club

    Green Peace and Sierra Club
    Social and political advocacy organizations that favor legislation with the goal of protecting the environment.
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union
    Occured in 1991 and it sparked the end of the cold war.
  • WTO

    WTO
    Avenue in which US attempts to reduce trade barriers through international orgaizations to increase flow of US commmerce.
  • Kyoto Protocol

    Kyoto Protocol
    Rejected by us senators due to othe fact that it could undermine the US governments authority.
  • US Patriot Act

    US Patriot Act
    was opposed by some lawmakers because they felt it would lead to violations of the constitutuinal rights of citizens.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    It focused the US foreign polocy in the 21st century to that of combating terrorism.
  • International Crimainal Court

    International Crimainal Court
    US views as good due to credibility gained by following same rules as other nations, yet bad due to soldiers and oficials of the US being charged with war crimes in a court not with the US legal system.
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    failure of levees to hold, inability of some residents to evacuate, location below sea level are some reasons why hurricane katrina did so much damage to New Orleans.
  • American recovery and reinvestment act

    American recovery and reinvestment act
    intended to improve economic conditions during a recission.
  • Third Party Candidates

    Third Party Candidates
    can sometimes spoil an election by causing a mainline paery candidate to lose by taking away votes.