Unit 6, Chapter 41 Flashcards

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Kyoto treaty

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  • International treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions

- Bush administration rejected the plan because it was too costly

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9/11 (2001)

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-common shorthand for the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2009, 119 Islam is the man hijacked and crashed for commercial aircrafts

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Al Qaeda

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  • Arabic word for the bass, and international lines of anti-Western Islam make fundamentalist terrorist organization founded in late 1980s by veterans of the Afghan struggle against the Soviet Union
  • founder=Osama bin laden
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US patriotic act (2001)

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-legislation passed shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that granted broad surveillance and attention authority to the government

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Apartment of Homeland security

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-cabinet level engine see in 2003 to unify and coordinate public level safety and anti-terrorism operations within the federal government

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Guantanamo detention camp

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  • controversial prison facility constructed after the US let invasion of Afghanistan in 2001
  • serves as an extra legal holding area for suspected terrorists
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Abu Ghraib prison

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  • detention facility near Baghdad Iraq
  • risen became the focal point of a prisoner abuse and torture scandal after photograph surface of American soldiers miss treating, torturing, and degrading Iraq war prisoners and suspected terrorists
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no Child left behind (2001)

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  • an education Bill created and signed by the George W. Bush administration
  • designed to increase accountability standards for primary and secondary schools
  • highly controversial, because it length results on standardization test to federal funding for schools and school districts
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Hurricane Katrina (2005)

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  • The cost list and one of the deadliest hurricanes in history of the US, which killed nearly 2000 Americans
  • A tardy and feeble response by local and federal authorities exacerbated The damage and led to widespread criticism of the federal emergency management agency
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Deleveraging

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-The inverse of leveraging whereby businesses increase their financial power by borrowing money(debt) addition to their own assets(equality)

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American recovery and reinvestment act (2009)

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  • One of the earliest initiatives of the Obama administration to combat the Great Recession
  • controversy oh from the outset, passing with no Republican votes in the house and only three in the Senate and helped foster the tea party movement
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Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

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  • refers to weapons that can kill large numbers of people and do great damage to the belt and natural environment
  • used to referred to nuclear weapons during the Cold War
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