George W. Bush Presidency How does GW Bush deal with issues of the 2000s?
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Transcript of George W. Bush Presidency How does GW Bush deal with issues of the 2000s?
2000 Election
• Vice-president Al Gore (D) vs. Gov. George W. Bush (R)• Confusion over the ballot in Palm Beach, Florida• VQ: What were voters worried about in Palm Beach?
Bush Wins Presidency
• Florida vote is in questions, who ever win Florida, wins election
• VQ: What confusion did the news networks create on election night?
• Machine recount gives Bush FLA by 327 votes, Gore challenges the result wants a hand recount (issue of “chads”)
• VQ: Does Florida State Supreme Court rule about the recount?
• Bush sues to stop recount, Bush v. Gore: US Supreme Court halts recount- Bush wins
Bush Domestic Agenda• Bush takes Clinton surplus and gives it back to American
people ($300 per tax payer)• Bush gets tax cuts passed, (based on income, wealthier get
more, poor get less)• Bush proposes No Child Left Behind education standards
World Trade Center
•Al-Qaeda members enter US w/ incomplete visas, hijack four planes
•Two planes crash into the World Trade Center
Results of 9/11 •2001: US invades Afghanistan to remove Taliban who supported Osama Bin Laden
•2001: Patriot Act will allow US Gov new powers such as no-warrant wire taps, collection of data
September 11th, 2001
Pentagon & Pennsylvania
•Third hits the Pentagon in Washington.
•Passengers took over fourth plane, crashes in PA field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcX3iffQcI&safe=active
War in Iraq•2002: Pres Bush says Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) & are part of an “axis of evil”
•VP Cheney says Iraq had a connection to Al-Qaeda (9/11) and an attack on the US was imminent
•March 2003: Pres Bush invades Iraq, despite UN disapproval
•May 2003: Bush declares “Mission accomplished” but US removes all Baath party members from jobs, many join insurgency against US
•2006: Insurgency grows, US soldiers implicated in Abu-Grabe scandal•War continues beyond Bush, 4500 US soldiers & millions of Iraqis die
Bush’s Second Term
• 2006: People angry over Iraq war, allows Democrats to regain Congress, Nancy Pelosi 1st woman elected Spkr of House
• 2007-08: Major financial crisis begins. Why?1. Growing debt from wars & tax cuts slows economy2. Housing bubble bursts - home prices overvalued & “sub-prime”
mortgages w/ flexible interest• Result: Massive mortgage defaults, banks losing money3. Major banks & other businesses fail due to risky loans• Bush & Congress pass TARP – up to $700 billion in tax money
to helped troubled institutions
• 2008: Huge debt, failed No Child Left Behind, two wars, possible depression