Obama’s Accomplishments:
- Obama passed the health care reform- National healthcare insurance, makes it easier to get health insurance and makes it so you have to have health insurance.
- Got rid of don’t ask don’t tell- Got rid of the law where if your gay in the military you don’t say anything.
- Killed Osama- He gave the order to go in and kill Osama.
Obama’s Issues:
- Obama Care- It forces everyone to have to have Health Insurance
- Don’t ask don’t tell- this can be bad also because some people who are serving alongside you don’t want to know if your gay or not
- Obama Increased National Debt
UN Millennium goals:
- End Hunger- The first target is to half the number of people whose income is less than $1.25 per day. The second target: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and children. The third and final target for this goal is to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger, between 1990 and 2015. The goal is pretty much just lower the world hunger rate.
- Universal Education- Target: To get every child into primary education. It’s important to help end poverty and hunger. You need an education to succeed and get money.
- Gender Equality- Woman and men aren’t being treated the same. The target was: “Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.”
- Child Health- This is the target for the goal. “Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.” Many countries have achieved this goal and the death rate has dropped. In other countries such as Sub—Saharan Africa and Southern Asia the goal has not yet been made. These two countries also make up for 82% of the Global under-five child deaths. Things to help reduce this is to educate mothers and end poverty
- Maternal Health- Mothers getting injured or dying during, before, or after child birth. The target is: “reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.” They have to reduce poverty to help this goal. They don’t have the proper tools and no doctors to help them. Ways to help: Setting up ways for women to get medicines and doctors there for the birth. Goal most likely won’t be met.
- Combat HIV, AIDS, and Malaria- The first step to this goal is simply stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS. New infections in unprotected regions are always popping up. Knowledge on how to act in the moment is on the decline. The next procedure is to provide universal treatment so that anyone anywhere can be treated with necessary precautions. And finally, the final step is to stop malaria. The percentage of malaria incidents have decreased by 17% and then thanks to increased funding, more children are sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Environmental sustainability-The name of this plan is the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Part B of the plan is Reducing Biodiversity Loss, which means stop the changing and destroying of small climates and animals. Since 1990, the area of protected land has increased by over 58%, but that is still a very small number when you look at it as a whole. As of 2010, only 12.7% of Earth's land surface was protected, and an even smaller number at 1.7% of Earth's oceans were protected. Part C of this massive plan is to half the number of people without clean water by 2015. The final part of this section of the plan is to decrease the number of slum dwellers by at least 100 million. A slum dweller is somebody who lives in a very densely populated area with poor conditions and is run down. This is a problem because we need the rainforests to have oxygen and animals.
- Global Partnership- The first target to further connect and establish a global partnership is to develop a trade system that has a clear set of rules that all countries know and understand. The rules must be non-discriminatory and any country is allowed to use it. The second goal has to do with helping the least developed countries in the world. These countries are most in danger of debt crisis’s and therefore need the most help in steering clear of national debt. The final two targets focus on providing both medical and electronic technology. These targets require a global partnership of countries and nations to support developing and developed countries in need by supplying them with the resources needed to not only be healthy and strong but to also keep connected.
Africa Topics:
- Rwanda- Majority-Hutus Vs. Minority-Tutsis. Hutus got mad because the Europeans favored the Tutsis. The Tutsis looked more like European people. This all started when Europe came into Africa. Hutus were violent and would attack the Tutsis. Then the Hutus took the government. The people who helped the government kill the Tutsis were rewarded with food and land. Tutsis got a force together and defeated the Hutus and now run the government.
- Somalia- Land that was occupied by several groups was put together as one. This led to anarchy. Fighting between rival groups. 1992 United Nations stepped in to help by giving aid to Somalia people. Al Shabaab terrorist group involved. The fight led to the people not getting food. War lords- the United States was after the war lords. Aidid was the war lord. We were going after him. Pirates in Somalia- They believe they are protecting Somalia's waters. There has been 14 attempts at government since 1991. They have a president now though. The Federal government of Somalia.
- Syria- Parties involved: Ba’ath party, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad, people of country. Ba’ath party is a political party which is in charge of Syria and the people of the country are against it. The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict between forces. It began March 15, 2011 and grow nationwide by April. The protesters wanted a democracy and greater freedom. They wanted Assad to resign but he refused to. He said he will change things but nothing has. They’ve moved 1,000,000 people to leave the conflict and half of them are children. The Arab spring is a revolutionary war that’s still going on and began in December 2010. Countries involved were Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Western Sahara, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and Sudan.
- Darfur in Sudan- Rebel group called Janjaweed and Sudanese people are attacking the black Africans in Darfur. Forms of torture ... rape, and killing. They wanted the land the Africans were on. Black African tried to fight back from the attacks. The Arab people started the genocide which was killing and raping. The Africans got pushed to other countries including Chad. 400,000 died from killing and malnutrition. Sudanese Army still reigns in Darfur causing violence. Doha Agreement- 2011 ended the fighting and genocide. UNAMID- United Nations and African mission in Darfur. Sudan wouldn't let the UN come in and help.
- South Sudan vs. Sudan - Arab Muslims vs Christians. The Sudanese government is the Arab Muslims. What happened- disagreed on oil there were two civil wars then south Sudan became a country . Most of the oil lands in South Sudan. Oil and Religion are two main parts of the fighting. Peace treaty- they had one for six years, but the treaty didn't work very well because of religion. Not many countries have help Sudan and south Sudan, because they won't let them in.
- Kony 2012- Lords Resistance Army(Joseph Kony) in Uganda/Central African Republic. Joseph Rao Kony (proclaims himself as a spokesman of god, had 88 wives and 42 kids, inspired by an overthrow of his president to start the Lord's Resistance Army/Movement). Began in 1987, Guerrilla group, he believes he is purifying his ethnic group, he abducts children and puts them in his army, very much like a cult, believes he is doing it for God. Threatens kids and hurts them so that they do what Kony wants. Kony inspired by an overthrow of the government he was under inspired him to create the Lord's Resistance Army. (UN, US, African Union, NATO) get involved--Jason Russel, came across a boy on a mission trip in Africa hiding from the LRA and Russel created Kony 2012 to try to stop Kony and they use social media to track and stop Kony and move people to join the effort. The LRA is still going on, but Kony 2012 is trying their very best to spread the word about how horrible the LRA is and how to stop them.
Economic Systems:
- Socialism- The government controls some of the businesses but not all of them.
- Capitalism- The government does not control businesses in an economic system. People own the businesses Private owned businesses
- Most countries are a mixed economy. Some businesses are owned by people and some by Government. U.S. is this.
Political Systems:
- Direct Democracy- No country does this. People have complete power, and it would be very hard to run an efficient country and could be dangerous.
- Representative Democracy- where governmental officials are elected by the citizens of a country to vote on laws for them. People choose representatives to represent for them. U.S
- Dictatorship- One person yields complete power. Adolf Hitler of Germany.
- Absolute Monarchy- King or queen is in charge of the country. Complete Power. Saudi Arabia.
- Constitutional Monarchy- king or queen is in charge but they have to abide by a constitution. Power is limited. Great Britain.
- Communism- The government controls what people do, say, and what they produce. China. Only 5 countries have this.
- Communists Theory- Karl Marks Frederick Angle. Book they wrote. Karl doesn’t think its good for rich to control everything in a country. Poor people will rise up and overthrow the rich and powerful to eventually create a society where everyone is equal. People won’t want to work if they don’t have to. It would be bad because it would cause chaos. Karl never marked out how to achieve this theory.
- Anarchy- No government
Difference in Democrats and Republicans:
- Where you live can affect what party you belong to
- Gun control- Democrats support more gun control laws. Republicans oppose that because of 2nd amendment rights.
- Natural Environment- Democrats favor spending money on helping the environment. Republicans oppose that.
- Race Relation- Democrats more friendly to minorities and favor helping minorities get jobs, and get into college. Republicans- not as friendly
- Minimum wage- Democrats more supportive of increasing it. Republicans oppose it because it hurts businesses.
- Health Care- Republicans oppose because they think we should keep the system the way it is. Democrats want the government to eventually pay for everyone’s health care.
Republicans:
- More conservative
- More in small areas
- Believe that government should be hands off
- Believe that government shouldn’t help people, people should do it themselves
- Believe that marriage is male and female
- More religious based
Democrats:
- More Liberal
- In more populated areas
- Favor change in society
- Increase in taxes on wealthy
- Support Pro-choice
- Support gay marriage
9/11/2001
- Al-Qaeda (terrorist group out of Afghanistan) high jacked four planes in an act of terrorism against the United States
- Two of the planes hit the north and south towers of the World Trade Center
- Within 2 hours both towers fell
- The third plane crashed into the western part of the Pentagon
- The 4th plane was headed toward the white house when the passengers took over the plane and crashed it into a field in Pennsylvania
- Osama Bin Laden was the man in charge of Al-Qaeda, and he led the attacks
- The U.S went into Afghanistan to take The Taliban out of power. The Taliban was Afghanistan’s government. They also went in to find Osama and Al-Qaeda
- The 9/11 attacks caused damage not only to the World Trade Center but also to surrounding buildings and the economy
- 2,996 deaths were caused because of these attacks
- There were no survivors on the planes
War in Iraq-
- United States went into Iraq because we thought they had Weapons of Mass destruction
- The U.S. also thought these weapons were a security problem
- We invaded March, 2003
- U.S. sent 20,000 troops
- 4,400 deaths from America
- 100,000 deaths from Iraq
- 800 billion dollars for cost of war for America
- The surge- (President bush sent 20,000 more troops to Bagdad and Anbar Province to provide more security) took place in 2007
- We pulled out our troops in 2011, but the country has fallen apart since we left
- We set up a new government in Iraq
- Saddam was killed by U.S troops
- Obama never liked the war
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