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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
How is American culture shaped by a
set of common values and practices?
How have disputes over ideas, values,
and politics resulted in change?
this_chapter_discusses_important_events_of_the_21st_century:_the_wars_in_
afghanistan_and_Iraq and the_foreign_and_domestic_issues_of_the_Bush_
administration.
No Child Left Behind and Medicare were NSA monitored domestic phone calls made
Terrorists attacked the U.S. on 9/11 in Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast.
2001. John Roberts and Samuel Alito were
Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were appointed to the Supreme Court.
responsible for 9/11. Out of control spending was partially due
The Office of Homeland Security and the to earmarks.
Patriot Act were created. Democrats gained control of Congress;
The War on Terror began in Afghanistan. Nancy Pelosi became the first female
Speaker of the House.
A troop surge was planned in Iraq.
Focusing on Afghanistan
andIraq
The U.S. sent military aid to the Northern
Alliance in Afghanistan.
The U.S. helped rebuild Afghanistan.
Bin Laden hid in the mountains in Pakistan.
Bush warned Americans about the Axis of
Evil.
Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam
Hussein to give up Iraqs WMD.
Iraq was invaded.