2000′s Timeline of the History of The United States

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Timeline of The History of the United States 2000s

2000: Bombing of the USS Cole killing seventeen American sailors
2000: U.S. presidential election, 2000; George W. Bush wins and is elected 43rd President of the United States.
2001: George W. Bush is inaugurated
2001: Democrats gain narrow control of Senate after James Jeffords defects from the Republican Party.
2001: September 11th terrorist attacks; 19 terrorists hijack planes and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people.
2001: Invasion of Afghanistan Operation “Enduring Freedom”
2001: Patriot Act
2002: Department of Homeland Security created.
2002: U.S. withdraws from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2003: Republicans retake narrow control of the Senate following 2002 elections.
2003: Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
2003: Invasion of Iraq Operation “Iraqi Freedom” commences.
2003: U.S. forces occupy Iraq
2004: The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season had numerous unusual occurrences impacting U.S. properties
2004: U.S. presidential election, 2004; George W. Bush re-elected to second-term.
2004: Republicans solidify control in both houses of Congress.
2005: George W. Bush is inaugurated to his second-term
2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastlines killing at least 1,836 people and causing $81 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
2006: Democrats retake control of both houses of Congress, and gain a majority of state governorships.
2007: Recession officially begins in December.
2007: Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
2007: A student shoots and kills 32 other students and professors at Virginia Tech before shooting himself. The worst mass-shooting in U.S. history.
2008: Global financial crisis in September 2008 begins as the stock market crashes
2008: U.S. presidential election, 2008; Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States.
2009: Barack Obama is inaugurated as the first African-American President of the United States
2009: The first of a series of Tea Party protests are conducted across the United States, focusinng on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and conservative views of the Constitution.
2009: President Barack Obama obtains Congressional approval of the $787 billion stimulus package, the largest since President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
2010: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
2010: The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, sending millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
2010: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

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