Monday- Notes
Tuesday- Notes/Extra credit
Wednesday- Extra credit
Thursday- Notes
Friday- Notes
New York Attack
- 4 planes were hijacked
- World Trade Center was targeted
- North building was hit first
- Crashes 14 minutes apart
- 2,606 people were killed
Washington, DC
- Crash into the pentagon
- Part of building collapsed
- 189 people were killed
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
- Was going to the capital building
- Passengers prevented that and did something
- Crashed in a field
- Killing 44 people on board
Rescue and Recovery
- Took months
- Survivors found under rubble
- Relief funds were set up
Effects of 9/11
- People lost loved ones
- Many jobs were lost
- Depression
- Parks closed
- Video games, movies, and TV shows were delayed
- Airports more secure
- Department of Homeland Security
- Protects US home land from attack
- The Patriot Act
- Gives the gov access to listen to conversations
- Patriotism increased
- Bush Doctrine
- The right to get rid of a government if threatened
Civil Rights
- The national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950's-60's to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights
- Blacks weren't getting treated like the whites
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Baptist Minister
- Spokes person
- Assassinated
- Rosa Parks
- Civil rights activist
- Refused to give up her seat on bus
- Staged
- Malcolm X
- American Muslim minister
- Bayard Rustin
- MLK right hand man
- Selma march
- Blacks would march in protest for rights
- Civil Rights Act
- Made equal rights throughout out black and whites
Watergate Scandal
- Political scandal against president Nixon
- Abuse of power
- 5 burgers broke into national democratic headquarters
- Tapped into the phones to find info about democratic candidates
Al- Qaeda
- "The base"
- A terrorist organization without a country
- Led by Osama bin Laden
- US came into their country
- Attacked because of jealously
- Disliked because we have military bases all over the world
- US believe thinks that they trained terrorists in Somalia how to shoot down aircraft
- Embassy Bombings
- USS Cole Attack
- Sent a suicide bomber to run boat into US ship
- Mohammed planned 9/11
Persian Gulf War
- Saddam Hussein invaded oil rich country Kuwait
- Operation Desert Storm
- Why 9/11 happened
Afghanistan
- Landlocked
- Taliban are in power
- Harsh
- Radical Muslims
- Drug trade
- Taliban did not plan 9/11
- Fatwa- a declaration of war on US
Operation Enduring Freedom
- Invaded Afghanistan 2001
- Mission:
- Capture Osama bin Laden
- Destroy Al-Qaeda network
- Remove Taliban Regime
Positive things US have done
- Girls attend school
- Taliban don't control
- Democratic gov
Seal Team Six
- Killed Osama bin Laden in 2011
Iraq
- War we fought because we thought that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction
- Ba'ath party took control
- US invades in 2003
- Got rid of the Ba'ath party
- US helps Iraq against Iran
- New constitution to set up a democracy
Consequences on Iraq
- Economic sanctions remained
- Letting weapon inspector in
- No fly zone
Iraq War 2003-2011
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- US believed that Iraq was getting weapons of mass destruction
- Never found any
- US believed that Bush was making nuclear weapons
- Possible Causes:
- Iraqi gov human rights abuses
- US spread democracy
- Oil interests
Issues in Iraq after war
- Violence
- Civil war between religion groups
- Al-Qaeda went into Iraq
President Bush's Policies
- Started war in 2003
- Not having an exit strategy
Other information
- Fragile states are not very well working states
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