Chapter 32 - The Age of Globalization

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Barack Obama

________ supported the right to abortion when he became president.

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President Bush

The 2004 election pitted ________, who was unopposed within his party, against John Kerry, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts From Stagflation to Growth.

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Environmentalists

________ argued that globalization, in exporting industry to low- wage countries, also exported industrial pollution and toxic waste to nations that had no effective laws to control them, and contributed significantly to global warming Defending Orthodoxy.

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aftermath of September

In the ________ 2001, the United States government launched what President Bush called a "war against terrorism ..

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1980s

By the ________, abortion was the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the country.

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environmental movement

The ________ grew dramatically in the early 1970s and continues to develop in the present.

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Senator John McCain of Arizona

________ emerged from the early primaries with the Republican nomination assured.

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Great Recession

The so- called ________ of 2008, influenced by the loan crisis, also pushed down wages and triggered widespread job layoffs making it impossible for the additional owners of ARMS and jumbo loans to make payments thus increasing the number of home foreclosures The Obama Presidency.

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Microsoft

________ produced a program known as MS- DOS (DOS for "disk operating system)

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Iraq

________ either had or was developing what came to be known as "weapons of mass destruction, "which included nuclear weapons and agents of chemical and biological warfare.

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PC

The ________, and its software, made their debut in August 1981 and immediately became enormously successful.

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Clinton

________ was a committed advocate of free trade and a proponent of many aspects of what came to be known as globalism.

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AIDS

________ is the product of the HIV virus, which is transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids (blood or semen)

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presidential election

The 2000 ________ was one of the most extraordinary in American history- not because of the campaign that preceded it, but because of the sensational controversy over its results.

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American economy

The ________ experienced rapid growth in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty- first.

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Bush administration

The ________ was part of a broad and successful effort to mobilize evangelical Christians as an active part of the Republican coalition.

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Bill Clinton

________ was the first Democratic president to win two terms as president since Franklin Roosevelt.

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Bush

The tax cuts also contributed to the nearly $ 10 trillion increase in the national debt during the ________ presidency.

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George W Bush

________- a Republican, a son of the former president, and a second- term governor of Texas- and Vice President Al Gore, a Democrat, easily won the nominations of their parties The Second Bush Presidency.

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French Revolution

The term "terrorism "was used first during the ________ in the 1790s to describe the actions of the radical Jacobins against the French government.

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Obama stimulus package

The ________, announced in 2009, included tax cuts, expanded unemployment benefits, and increased spending on education, infrastructure, police, health care, and job creation.

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technology industries

The ________ created many new jobs and produced new consumer needs and appetites.

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Iraq

________ was supporting terrorist groups that were hostile to the United States.

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George W Bush

________ assumed the presidency in January 2001 burdened by both the controversies surrounding his election and the perception that he was ill- prepared for the office.

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American economy

Although the ________ revived from the sluggishness of the 1970s and early 1980s, the benefits of the new economy were less widely shared than those of earlier boom times.

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