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  1. 2. is an ongoing asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military began to intervene in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence
  2. 4. served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017
  3. 5. The U.S.-UK invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, toppled the brutal Taliban regime. It stands out as the most conventional action in a war that has rewritten the rules on conflict
  4. 8. is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008
  5. 9. topped the box office in 2000 with the release of Cast Away. The star earned an Oscar nomination for his role as the marooned Chuck in the Robert Zemeckis drama and made $429.6 million in worldwide ticket sale
  6. 13. started Google while students at Stanford. They first incorporated in 1998, and went public in 2004. Google is responsible for the way we use the internet; its goal has been to organize knowledge and make it widely available. It has become the accepted word for searching for information on the internet. It also is highly rated as an employer, with policies that encourage creativity
  7. 15. at age 50 on June 25, 2009, led to tributes all over the world. The sudden death of the pop star
  8. 18. But in 2001, as the music industry struggled to control its revenue streams in the era of file sharing and piracy, Apple developed the iPod, the most profitable mp3 player of its era, along with iTunes, an online marketplace that hastened the obsolescence of physical media (well, CDs, anyway). But the release of the iPhone in 2007 truly broadened consumers’ technological landscapes—not just by putting the computing and communication power of a personal computer in the palm of their hands, but by paving the way for a constant level of connectivity and interactivity that has changed the way we experience the world.
  9. 21. The people of the Gulf Coast braced themselves as the sixth strongest hurricane in Atlantic history hurtled their way
  10. 23. became Ethan Hunt for a second time in 2000, hitting the big screen in Mission: Impossible II
  11. 24. went to battle in 2000, appearing as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator
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  1. 1. set in motion the main events of the decade. He set two wars in motion, created an environment in this country that allowed the government to undo decades of civil liberties progress in the name of safety.
  2. 3. in this decade perhaps most significant is his use of talking points in delivering the news, especially on the Fox News Network. Fox leads other cable news channels. Fox watchers still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the attacks of 9/11.
  3. 6. during his tenure as head of the Federal Reserve probably had more to do with the policies that set this in motion than anyone else. He has admitted that he believed in market forces that would self-regulate, and that he was wrong.
  4. 7. People all over the United States remember where they were when news broke that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center in New York City. The morning of September 11, 2001, would end with two hijacked airliners flown into each of the WTC towers, another plane flown into the Pentagon, and a fourth plane crashing into the ground in Pennsylvania after passengers stormed the cockpit. Nearly 3,000 people died in the country's worst terrorist attack, which made al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden household names
  5. 10. became an Oscar winner on March 26, 2000, taking home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted. She returned to theaters just months later in Gone in 60 Seconds, making $237.2 million worldwide
  6. 11. In December 2007, the U.S. experienced its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression
  7. 12. his is the name that history will put on the policies that followed 9/11
  8. 14. an economist whose research dealt specifically with the economic fallout from financial crises, luckily happened to be the Fed chair at the time. His unprecedented program of emergency loans and quantitative easing (including bailing out Europe) helped prevent the crisis from reaching Depression levels, and arguably made the global recovery more rapid
  9. 16. were in their pop heyday in 2000. The pop singers performed at the 2000 Grammys where they were nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "I Want It That Way" and Album of the Year for Millennium. Months after the Grammys, BSB went multiplatinum with the November 2000 debut of Black & Blue
  10. 17. The actor had a diverse schedule, lending his voice to the animated Chicken Run, starring as Benjamin Martin in the Roland Emmerich drama The Patriot, appearing alongside Milla Jovovich and Jeremy Davies in The Million Dollar Hotel, and trying out romantic comedies with the blockbuster What Women Want.
  11. 19. When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice(came out in 2008)
  12. 20. The intelligence that led to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 remains a controversy, but the invasion changed the decade in a way that its predecessor, the Gulf War, didn't
  13. 22. A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
  14. 25. Iraq's brutal dictator since 1979