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Crash Course 46 - Rise of Terrorism

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Period 9 - Rise of Terrorism

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hi I'm John Green this is Crash Course u.s. history and today we've done it  hey we boldly go where no history this is going before because your teacher ran out of time and never made it to the present also if you're preparing for the AP test it's unlikely that today's video will be helpful to you because you know they never get to stuff is green awesome free. And how you choose to use it in your future hold on I got to take the stuff off it's hard to take me seriously with that we're in the future for you which means did you or learning important things about the you who does not yet next Lady Gaga Kanye and Kim Bieber we're not going to find out about any of those things because history the presidency of George W bush may not end up on your exam but it's very important when it comes to understanding the United States that we live in today Democratic presidential candidate in the internet or with sitting vice president and he asked Bill Clinton not 2 campaign much because a lot of Voters kind of hated Bill Clinton the Republican candidate with George W Bush governor of Texas and unlike his father a reasonably authentic Texan is running as a compassionate conservative which meant he was organizing a coalition of religious people in fiscal conservatives effective Coalition and George W Bush got a lot of votes he did not however get as many votes as Al Gore but as you'll know that remember from earlier in Crash Course u.s. history in the United States presidential election you're not decided by popular vote they are decided by the electoral college should the election was incredibly close it solidified their red-blue divide that has become a Trope for politician since what in the end Gore won the popular vote by about five hundred thousand votes however Alvord did not have the necessary electoral votes to become president yes he won Florida did he win Florida I don't even want to go there with ridiculously close but George W bush had a gigantic Advantage which set his brother Jeb Bush was the governor of Florida loud underfloor DeWalt then bushes lawyers as the Supreme Court to intervene and they did their decision in Bush V Gore remains rather controversial they ruled that the recount can be stopped interfering with the state law and also a state's electoral process which is a weird decision for strict constructionist to make one of the strong points in the United States these past centuries has been that sometimes we have the opportunity to go to war over whether this person or that person should be president and we choose not to tell me about should have been elected he was and he said to work implementing his campaign promises including working on a missile defense system that was very similar to Star Wars and I was Ronald Reagan Star Wars not George Lucas's Star Wars man if he doesn't suck that would be awesome for stem cell research and he supported oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge environmental policy no protocol on carbon emissions and that didn't go over well with environmentalist in the US or in all of these green parts of not America because they were like you guys made all the carbon who is sad this is America  also attempt in education reform with the No Child Behind Act which mandated that states Implement rigorous standards and testing regimes to prove that those standards were being met No Child Left Behind Act is especially controversial with teachers who are great friends of Crash Course u.s. history so we will say nothing more most important push through the largest tax cut in American history in 2001 claim add putting more money in Americans pockets would stimulate growth in an economy that it stumbled after the bursting of the dock, bubble in 2000 the rules here are simple I guess the author the mystery document I either get it right or I get shocked with the shock pen alright what are you got here today I got a feeling it's going to be a sad one it was a beautiful fall day with a crisp Blue Sky I was coming into work late that day I guess I didn't have first. play ass give the 2nd or 3rd day of school from the subway Union Square was strangely quiet which only added to the beauty of the day people were standing still weird in New York under any circumstances and looking down University Place toward Lower Manhattan before I even looked a passerby what happened she or he I don't remember said that a plane had crashed into the Trade Center then I looked and saw the smoke billowing out of the South Tower I thought it was an accident but I knew this was not going to be an easy day well it's obviously someone who was in New York City on September 11th 2001 but. Only narrows it down to like 10 million people however I happen to know that it is Crash Course his story my high school history teacher Raoul Mayer who wrote that account this is the saddest I've ever been to not be shocked for debate in September 11th 2001 ensured that foreign policy would dominate any discussion of the opening decade of the 21st Century for airliners to planes were flown into Manhattan's World Trade Center of third was crashed into the Pentagon in Washington and the 4th also headed for Washington DC crashed in Pennsylvania when passengers overpowered the hijackers including almost 400 policemen and firefighters Bill the devastated city of shared sense of trauma and the desire to show resolve really did bring the country together play speech on September 20th the president told Americans watching on television that the terrorists had targeted America quote because we love freedom and they hate freedom critical moment in American history where the definition of freedom is being reimagined and we were in the wake of September 11th at one of the central things in government does to keep us free is to play safe but at the same time ensuring our safety sometimes means impinging upon our freedom as a question of how to keep America safe while also preserving our civil liberties is one of the central questions of the 21st century guiding principle in foreign policy that became known as the Bush Doctrine what would go to war with terrorism making no distinction between the terrorists and the Nations that harbored the bush laid out the terms for the world that night either you are with us or you are with the terrorists would prove to be a bit of an oversimplification by a group of Islamic fundamentalists called the Taliban who were protecting us on the been one al-qaeda's leader this was followed by American ground troops supporting the anti-taliban Northern Alliance and chasing centella van and setting up a new Afghan government that was friendly to the United States government on did many of the Taliban policies for instance allowing women and girls to go to school even to serve in the parliament more women than girls in the parliament Naturally by 2007 the Taliban was beginning to make a comeback and although fewer than 100 Americans died in the initial set the war a sizeable force remained and in the ensuing 12 years the number of Americans killed would continue to rise and then by January 2002 b******* expanded the scope the global war on terror by proclaiming that Iran arak and North Korea were a quote axis of Evil that harbored terrorists even though none of those Nations had Direct did the September 11th attacks and also to spread it religious toleration free trade and free markets freedoms Bush said we're right and true for every person in every society and there's no question Sam Hussein that rack of 2003 was not by any of those definitions free but the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States was predicated on two ideas ends of mass destruction chemical and biological weapons that they were refusing to give up and second that there was or least may have been a link between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the Alki attacks of 9/11 March 2003 the United States Britain and the Coalition of other countries invaded Iraq within a month Baghdad was captured Saddam Hussein created a new government that was more democratic than saddam's dictatorship and then descended into sectarian chaos Creations in a wreck but troop soon found themselves trying to manage an increase in the organized Insurgency that featured attacks and bombings and by 2006 American intelligence and concluded that Iraq had become a Haven for his llamas terrorist which it hadn't been before the invasion in fact Saddam Hussein socialist government while it occasionally called upon religion to you people against an enemy was pretty secular by the end of 2003 weather $20,000 so that and we try very hard here at crash course to be objective was a bit of a disaster USA Patriot Act which believe it or not is an acronym for the uniting and strengthening America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism Act of 2001 Congress unprecedented one forcement powers to combat domestic terrorism including the ability to wiretap and spy on American people connected to the mid please we're called in for questioning and more than 1,200 were arrested many held for months without any charge also set up a camp for a terrorist in Guantanamo play in Cuba but not the fun kind of Camp the prison kind it has more than 700 suspects President also authorized the National Security Agency to listen to telephone Nations without first obtaining a warrant the so-called warrantless wiretapping that NSA surveillance is of course gone much further than this with women's programs like prism which sounds like it's out of an Orwell novel I mean both like the name and the actual thing that it refers to name of the Katy Perry album proving that we are young and hip and with-it  call Richie has that song in Madagascar 3 sorry I have a little kids this eventually limited the executive Branch's Power Enemy combatants do have some procedural rights Congress also can use of torture in a 2005 defense Appropriations Bill sponsored by Republican John McCain who himself had been a victim of torture in Vietnam defense department can you news of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding which most countries do considered torture isn't Lee week John Kerry who was characterized as a wife wear on a number of issues including the Iraq War and also terrible can we didn't help in much to historians really drives voters wasn't that great at all during 2001 and the September 11th attacks made it much worse and begin to grow again if we quickly employment didn't recover hence all the description of it as a jobless recovery 90% of the jobs lost in the 2001 - 2002 recession were in can you facturing continuing a trend that we've been seeing for 30 years the number of steelworkers dropped from 520000 in 1970 to 120000 in two I need his first term George W bush actually became the first president since Herbert Hoover to oversee a net loss of jobs I want to be clear that that's not necessary plane times before economics are complicated and presidents do not decide whether economies grow second term let's go to the thought bubble undermine the Public's confidence in the bush chief of staff refrigerate and then House Majority Leader Tom the hammer delay was indicted for violating campaign Finance laws ghost near New Orleans submerging much of the city killing nearly 1,500 people and leaving thousands stranded without basic Services disaster preparation and response score on the state local and federal levels but the slow response of the Department of Homeland Security in Federal Emergency Management agency was particularly noticeable as how is of mostly African-American New Orleans residents suffered without food or water damage to the city was estimated at around $80 expose the persistent poverty and racial divisions in the city will the contributing to the reversal of Fortune for Congressional Republicans in the 2006 midterms more likely the spike in gasoline prices that resulted from the shutting down of refining capacity in the gulf and increased demands for oil from rapidly growing China voters gave demek let's majorities in both houses and Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman speaker of the house in American history and then in 2007 the country field back into recession as a massive housing bubble began to deflate followed by the near collapse of the American banking system in 2008 thank you once again for the tremendous Singapore's are still in the recent past and it's impossible to tell just what their historical significance is without some distance so the attacks on September 11th Ed far rain sing effects on demand foreign policy but also on the entire world under the leadership of George W bush the United States begin and Global fight against terrorism and for freedom but as is what we mean by those words is evolving and there's no question that in trying to ensure a certain kind of Freedom we have undermined other kinds of free will get to the even Messier and work gear World of the 2008 financial collapse next week until then thanks for watching Google, voluntary subscription service that allows you to subscribe monthly to crash course for the price of your choosing crash course possible so please check it out thank you for watching thanks for supporting crash course and as we say in my hometown don't forget to be awesome

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