Chapter 32 - The Age of Globalization

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President Bush
The 2004 election pitted ________, who was unopposed within his party, against John Kerry, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts.
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Barack Obama
________ supported the right to abortion when he became president.
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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.
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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
The roots of the economic growth of the ________, 1990s, and 2000s lay in part in the troubled years of the 1970s when the United States seemed for a time to be losing its ability to produce long- term prosperity.
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Senator John McCain of Arizona
________ emerged from the early primaries with the Republican nomination assured.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Bush
The tax cuts also contributed to the nearly $ 10 trillion increase in the national debt during the ________ presidency.
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Bill Clinton
________ was the first Democratic president to win two terms as president since Franklin Roosevelt.
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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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technology industries
The ________ created many new jobs and produced new consumer needs and appetites.
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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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MS DOS
Microsoft produced a program known as ________ (DOS for "disk operating system)
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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.