APUSH Chapter 41/42 Unit 9 Vocabulary

Also known as Obamacare, aimed to extend affordable health care insurance to an additional 25-30 million Americans through combinations of subsidies, mandates, and insurance exchanges while introducing medical and insurance reforms to control health care costs. It required insurance companies to accept patients regardless of pre-existing conditions and to spend at least 80% of every premium dollar on health care, or rebate their customers

Afghanistan vs. the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France, and the Afghan United Front. The United States prompted war after the 9-11 terrorist attack in order to remove al-Qaeda from the region and dismantle the Taliban regime to replace it with a democratic government. Began October 7, 2001-present day.

A network of Islamic terrorist organizations, led by Osama bin Laden, that carried out the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001

Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria took Macedonia from the Ottomans in 1912. Serbia then fought Bulgaria in the second Balkan War in 1913 Austria intervened to stop the war. These wars were mostly territorial and were a precursor to World War I.

2008; Democrat; first African-American president of the US, health care bill; Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster; economy: huge stimulus package to combat the great recession, is removing troops from Iraq, strengthened numbers in Afghanistan; repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell; New Start treaty with Russia.

1992 and 1996; Democrat; Don't Ask Don't Tell policy implemented by Congress, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Travelgate controversy; Operation Desert Fox (4 day bombing campaign in Iraq); Scandals: Whitewater controversy, Lewinsky scandal (impeached and acquited), Travelgate controversy, Troopergate; first balanced budget since 1969

A change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.

Pacts between two countries or among a group of countries that make it easier to trade goods across national boundaries by reducing or eliminating restrictions on exports and tariffs ( or taxes) on imported goods and protecting intellectual property rights.

43rd president of the US who began a campaign toward energy self-sufficiency and against terrorism in 2001; he was very conservative and pro life.

Originally, this buzz term referred to the spread of economic activities from a home country to other parts of the world, but its reach has profoundly influenced cultural and political realms.

A global network connecting millions of computers, making it possible to exchange information.

The 9/11 attack, George W. Bush declared a war on terrorism. This led to attacking Iraq where Saddam Hussein ruled so that they could stop them from building nuclear weapons. The United Nations claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that the Iraq government was connected to the terrorists of al Qaeda. American Troops forced the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his government.

North American Free Trade Agreement. A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries.

Signed into law in 2002. NCLB addresses accountability of school personnel for student achievement with the expectation that every child will demonstrate proficiency in Reading, Math, and Science.

(1957-) Founder of al Qaeda, the terrorist network responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other attacks.

Caused by a collapse of the housing market, the mismanagement of housing mortgages by banks, and the bankruptcy of major investment firms. Officially began in December 2007 and ended in mid-2009, has had long-term lingering effects on unemployment.

Was a dictator in Iraq who tried to take over Iran and Kuwait violently in order to gain the land and the resources. He also refused to let the UN into Iraq in order to check if the country was secretly holding weapons of mass destruction.

A series of attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. Members of Al-Qaeda, an Islamist fundamentalist group, took over four passenger planes. They flew two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and one into the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., while the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 victims, plus 19 hijackers, died in the attacks.

A fundamentalist Muslim movement whose militia took control of much of Afghanistan from early 1995, and in 1996 took Kabul and set up a radical Islamic state. The movement was forcibly removed from power by the US and its allies after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Initiated by President George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist operatives and their supporters throughout the world.

Weapons of mass destruction. Generally, nuclear weapons with the tremendous capability to destroy a population and the planet. WMD warfare refers to the application of force between countries using biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.