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Lesson 11 - Post-9/11 America
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9/11
REVIEW
From Beginning to end!
Main movements and presidents
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LESSON PROFILE
Seating chart
Pre-Revolution History
TRENDS
1490-1499 - Columbus
1500-1599 - Exploration
1600-1699 - Settlement
1700-1769 - American Rights
1770s
TRENDS
1770-1779 - The American Revolution
1780-1789 - The Nascent Democracy
1790-1799 - America Builds and Expands
PRESIDENTS
1789-1797 George Washington
1797-1801 John Adams
1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson
1809-1817 James Madison
1817-1825 James Monroe
1825-1829 John Quincy Adams
1880s
TRENDS
1800-1809 - Exploration
1810-1819 - The War of 1812
1820-1829 - A Decade of Compromise & Doctrine
1830-1839 - Conquering the West
1840-1849 - The Mexican War
1850-1859 - Expansion & the Looming Divide
1860-1869 - The Civil War
1870-1879 - The Nation's Centennial Decade
1880-1889 - America Invents
1890-1899 - The Age of Immigration, Gilded Age
PRESIDENTS
1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson
1809-1817 James Madison
1817-1825 James Monroe
1825-1829 John Quincy Adams
1829-1837 Andrew Jackson
1837-1841 Martin Van Buren
(1841) William Henry Harrison
1841-1845 John Tyler
1845-1849 James K. Polk
1849-(1850) Zachary Taylor *
1850-1853 Millard Fillmore
1853-1857 Franklin Pierce
1891-1868 James Buchanan
1861-(1865) Abraham Lincoln
1865-1869 Andrew Johnson
1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant *
1877-1881 Rutherford Hayes
(1881) James Garfield
1881-1885 Chester Arthur
1885-1889 Grover Cleveland
1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison
1893-1897 Grover Cleveland
1897-1901 William McKinley
1990s
TRENDS
1900-1909 - Progressive Era
1910-1919 - World War I
1920-1929 - Prosperity and Its Demise
1930-1939 - The Great Depression
1940-1949 - World War II
1950-1959 - Two Cars in Every Garage
1960-1969 - Civil Rights and Turmoil
1970-1979 - The Nation in Flux
1980-1989 - The Reagan Revolution
1990-1999 - Prosperity as the World Turns
PRESIDENTS
1901-1901 Theodore Roosevelt
1909-1913 William Taft
1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson
1921-1923 Warren Harding
1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge
1929-1933 Herbert Hoover *
1933-1945 Franklin Roosevelt
1945-1953 Harry S. Truman
1953-1931 Dwight Eisenhower
1961-(1963) John Kennedy
1963-1969 Lyndon Johnson
1969-(1974) Richard Nixon
1974-1977 Gerald Ford
1977-1981 Jimmy Carter
1981-1989 Ronald Reagan
198-1993 George H. W. Bush
1993-2001 Bill Clinton
2000s (TBC)
PRESIDENTS
2001-2009 George W. Bush
2009-2017 Barack Obama
2017- now Donald Trump *
TRENDS
2000-2009 - The Fight against Terrorism
2010-Present - Economic Recovery
9/11
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Note: If you believe 9/11 conspiracy theories because of a "documentary" you saw online, there's nothing I can do to help you. You enjoy being the company of people who believe that the government is hiding information about aliens, the Kennedy assassination, and people who don't wash their hands after using the toilet.
OBJECTIVES
Essential understandings
Basic info
Nineteen men hijacked four fuel-loaded US commercial airplanes bound for west coast destinations. A total of 2,977 people were killed in New York City, Washington, DC and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The attack was orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who claimed responsibility soon after.
The Damage
At the World Trade Center (WTC) site in Lower Manhattan, 2,753 people were killed when hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were intentionally crashed into the north and south towers, or as a result of the crashes.
This includes 343 New York City firefighters, 23 were New York City police officers and 37 officers at the Port Authority.
At the Pentagon in Washington, 184 people were killed when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building.
Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 40 passengers and crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 93 died when the plane crashed into a field. It is believed that the hijackers crashed the plane in that location, rather than their unknown target, after the passengers and crew attempted to retake control of the flight deck.
Some Immediate Effects
President Bush announced a "Global War on Terrorism"
NATO invaded Afganistan, and later the US invaded Iraq
Aviation and Transportation Security Act
USA Patriot Act (law enforcement surveillance and searches)
ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) double deportations
Homeland Security: $16 billion in 2002 to more than $43 billion in 2011.
Later issues:
Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib ('enhanced interrogation techniques')
Unending military engagements abroad (still in Afganistan even today)
War crimes and global discrediting of USA
Some More Abstract Effects
- Population rallied behind Bush, public patriotism (at least for a while)
- Islamophobia siginificantly strenthened
- Muslims publicly denounced the Taliban, patrotism
- Stressed relations with Pakistan, Afganistan and Iraq (somehow Saudia Arabia is even til today a close cooperator)
- Strong distrust of the government ('weapons of mass destruction'), distrust of government opinion on terrorism, war, freedom of information, law enforcement, climate change.
- In the last 15 years, millions of young U.S. soldiers have been deployed overseas, thousands have been killed and many have returned home with debilitating physical and mental injuries.
A very real concern if you use Google products (or any American tech company) (yes, including games):
Thanks to expanded surveillence power, Snowden and the Washington Post revealed 16 spy agencies and more than 107,000 employees that now make up the U.S. intelligence community with a $52.6 billion budget (in 2013).
Further audits reveal that the National Security Agency alone has annually scooped up as many as 56,000 emails and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism, and in doing so, had violated privacy laws thousands of times per year.
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NOTES
Finishing early, sorry!
Please review the course in STAG or Edis - I really do take student feedback into consideration (and I'm going to redo the course in January).
Don't forget to register in STAG for the Zapocet! Most of the quesitons will be long-answer form, which means about 3-4 sentences for an answer. The answer must contain evidence, argument and your analysis.