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Present Day AmericaGeorge W. Bush – War on Terror
George W. Bush• Guides the nation
through the September 11th, 2001 attacks
• Calls North Korea, Iran and Iraq the “Axis of Evil”
• Declares “War on Terrorism”
• No Child Left Behind– Penalize schools who do
not reach federal performance standards
Age of Computers and Technology• IBM
– 1st commercial computers in 1954
– Lead to microchip• Apple Computers
– Steve Jobs, affordable personal computers
• Microsoft– Bill Gates, w/ Jobs
• Amazon.com– Jeff Bezos, buying and
selling items by computer / internet
911• Sept. 11, 2001
– American Flight 11 crashes into World Trade Center
– Followed by a 2nd crash into WTC (collapse)
– Pentagon hit– Flight 93 crashes in
Shanksville, PA– Largest attack / loss of life
on US soil since Pearl Harbor
War on Terror• Iraq
– Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
– UN weapons inspectors not allowed in by Iraq
– Hunt for Saddam Hussain• Afghanistan
– Hunt for Osama Bin Laden– Al Qaeda: Islamic Terrorist
organization• Taliban
– Islamic Fundamentalist government
– Allowed to run training camps for Al Qaeda
• Belief that if you aid and sponsor terrorist, you yourself are terrorists.
• Homeland Security– Department to protect US
from attacks– Made of Federal, Local,
and State authorities (a web / network)
• Patriot Act– Authorities the ability to
monitor suspected terrorists
– Detain or deport aliens associated with terrorist groups.