A war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

Vote recounting in Florida occurred during the the week after election day in the presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.The Florida vote was ultimately settled in Bush's favor when the US Supreme Court in Bush v Gore stopped a recount that had been initiated upon a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court. The decision is still controversial.

A period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.The financial crisis was primarily caused by deregulation in the financial industry. That permitted banks to engage in hedge fund trading with derivatives. Banks then demanded more mortgages to support the profitable sale of these derivatives.

An armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein.

An agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.

During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted.

A metaphor of war referring to the international military campaign that started after the 9/11 attacks on the US.

Despite warnings from scientists, ineptitude from local and federal government to respond to this disaster trapped almost half the population of New Orleans. President Bush did not quite grasp just how much damage this hurricane inflicted. Vast numbers of poor African Americans were stranded in the floodwaters and virtually ignored for several days.

Former Democratic governor of Arkansas elected in 1993. Fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

The conflict between traditionalist or conservative values and progressive or liberal values. Inspired harsh debates and legislation that targeted immigrants and minorities (particularly imprisonment).

Bush's foreign policy principle wherein the US would launch a war on vaguely defined terrorism.

Landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled that the right of same-sex couples to marry on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples, with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities

A series of ethnic conflicts from 1991 to 1999/2001 in the former Yugoslavia. These wars accompanied and facilitated the breakup of the Yugoslav state, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic minorities in the new countries (chiefly Serbs, Croats and Albanians) were still unresolved at the time. As a result, the wars were marked by many war crimes, including ethnic cleansing.

Along with fighting the AIDS epidemic, LGBT individuals became accepted by the mainstream.

Document that defines "freedom" as free market, freedom of expression, and religion. Proclaimed they are "right and true" for societies and the U.S. would fight terrorists to achieve these for all peoples.

International activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.

The impeachment of Bill Clinton over an affair with a White House intern brought this workplace issue into the national conversation?

This new technological advent sparked a stock market boom in the 1990's. Wealth was not evenly distributed.

The official name used by the U.S. government for the Global War on Terrorism. Primarily used to refer to the war in Afghanistan. Currently the longest conflict in American History.

A loosely-connected grouping of white supremacists, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, neo-fascists, and other far-right fringe hate groups.