Unit 12, Day 1

Unit 12, Day 1

90s & Today​

​Objectives:

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US.2A - Identify the major eras in U.S. history from 1877 to the present and describe their defining characteristics.

US.11A - Describe U.S. involvement in world affairs, including the end of the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, the events surrounding September 11, 2001, and the global War on Terror.
US.11C - analyze the impact of third parties on the 1992 and 2000 presidential elections;

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Name the President and the scandal associated with each one. ​

​What time period did we just go over in Unit 11?

Multiple Choice

Why did the US fight in the Persian Gulf War?

• Iraq needed help resisting a communist revolution

• Iraq supplied weapons to al-Qaeda terrorists

• Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait.

• Iraq financed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes a common theory regarding the third-party candidacy of Ross Perot in the U.S. presidential election of 1992?

• A

• B

• C

• D