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APUSH vocab U5 40
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) | Refers to weapons—nuclear, biological, and chemical—that can kill large numbers of people and do great damage to the built and natural environment. Bush thought Iraq had these, invaded. |
| Kyoto Treaty | International treaty to limit greenhouse gas emission |
| 9/11 | Common shorthand for the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, in which 19 militant Islamist men hijacked and crashed four commercial aircraft. Two hit Twin Towers, One pentagon, and another in a field |
| USA Patriot Act | Legislation passed shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that granted broad surveillance and detention authority and deportation of an immigrants suspected of terrorism |
| Departments of Homeland Security | Cabinet-level agency created in 2003 to safeguard the nation's border and ferret out potential attacks. |
| Guantanamo Detection Camp | American military base in Cuba to hold suspected terrorists |
| Abu Ghraib Prison | A detention facility near Baghdad, Iraq, Site of infamous torturing and execution of Iraqi by American captors |
| No Child Left Behind Act | Designed to increase standards for schools, the law authorized several federal programs to monitor those standards and increased choices for parents in selecting schools for their children |
| Hurricane Katrina | (2005) The costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States, killing nearly 2000 Americans. New Orleans |
| deleveraging | Process whereby businesses increase their financial power by borrowing money (debt) in addition to their own assets (equity) |
| American Recovery and Reinvestment Act | This was an economic stimulus bill that was comprised of tax cuts, spending for jobs programs, and funding for state and local governments, OBAMA |
| Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Required all Americans to buy health insurance and prohibited health insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, OBAMA |
| Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act | The Act updated many federal regulations affecting the financial and banking systems |
| Tea Party | A grassroots conservative political movement mobilized in opposition to Barack Obama's fiscal, economic, and health care policies |
| Occupy Wall Street | Youthful radicals protest inequality and corporate political power |
| Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals | Provided renewable two-year periods of exemption from deportation and eligibility for work permits for people who arrived in the US as minors, w/o papers |
| Freedom Act of 2015 | reform government surveillance by ending the bulk collection of telephony metadata by the NSA |
| Confirmation Bias | Tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information that confirms one's pre-existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence |
| Iran Nuclear Deal | Iran agreed to curtail nuclear weapons in exchange for lifting the economic sanctions |
| Tax Cuts and Jobs Act | Cut the corporate tax rate. The act also capped the mortgage interest deduction, an apparent political retribution against Democrat states. The act will likely add $1 trillion to the national debt |
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