Timeline for 21st Century Turning Points in U.S. （时间表在美国21世纪的转折点）.pdfVIP

1 Timeline for 21st Century Turning Points in U.S. History (2000 – 2009) 2000 – The New Millennium begins • Y2K fears are unfounded • Dow Jones reaches 11,722 • NASDAQ reaches all time high of 5048 • The end of the 90s DotCom boom begins and stocks start to plunge • George W. Bush wins the Presidential election o November 9th – Al Gore requests recount of Florida ballots th o December 12 – The United States Supreme Court overrules Florida Supreme Court on manual recount of under-ballots; George Bush is declared the winner of the Presidential Election th o December 13 – Al Gore concedes election to George Bush 2001 – On September 11th Al Qaeda terrorists crash three planes into the New York’s World Trade Center and Pentagon • Heroic passengers on fourth plane, United Flight 93, foil hij ackers and plane crashes into a Pennsylvania field • Apple Computer Debuts iPod • In October U.S. begins military strikes in Afghanistan 2002 – U.S. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, known as Gitmo, opens as a detention camp for terrorist suspects captured in Afghanistan • In his State of the Union address of January 2002, President Bush defines an Axis of Evil, which includes North Korea, Iran and Iraq • President Bush addresses U.N. Security Council on Iraq, begins the run up toward war with Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein th • On October 11 2002, the U.S. Congress passes the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq 2003 – On February 3rd 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell lays out the case to go to