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Challenges of the New Millenium

Challenges of the New Millenium . Bill Gates. Co-Founder of Microsoft, created one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry. First to see the potential of the personal computer. Sam Walton. Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Estee Lauder.

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Challenges of the New Millenium

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  1. Challenges of the New Millenium

  2. Bill Gates

  3. Co-Founder of Microsoft, created one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry. First to see the potential of the personal computer.

  4. Sam Walton

  5. Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club.

  6. Estee Lauder

  7. Jewish women who founded a cosmetics company.

  8. Robert Johnson

  9. First African-American billionaire. Founder of BLack Entertainment Television.

  10. Lionel Sosa

  11. Founded the largest Hispanic advertising agency in the US. Political consultant to several Republican Presidents.

  12. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

  13. Was created by the Obama and Congressional leaders to jumpstart the American economy.

  14. Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

  15. Required banks to make credit available in poor communities

  16. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

  17. A worldwide association of nations that depend on oil sales for their national income and that sets oil prices.

  18. General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

  19. Formed in 1947 to further trade by reducing tariff levels on many commodities. Replaced by the World Trade Organization in 1994.

  20. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  21. Trade pact signed by Canada, the U.S., and Mexico in 1992. Decreased and eventually eliminated tariffs to encourage economic activity between the countries.

  22. Sonia Sotomayor

  23. First Hispanic Justice and the third woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

  24. Oprah Winfrey

  25. Supervising producer and host of the top-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show for two decades. She is a global media leader and philanthropist.

  26. Impeachment

  27. To charge a government official with an offense committed while in office

  28. Persian Gulf War

  29. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and refused the U.N.’s request to withdraw. U.N. forces under U.S. leadership, attacked Iraq.

  30. Balkans Crisis

  31. Ethnic groups pushed for independence which resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia

  32. 9/11

  33. Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists boarded our different U.S. airlines. Once airborne, the planes were hijacked. Then, the terrorists flew the planes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, when passengers resisted the terrorists.

  34. Global War on Terror

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