History Essays for Test 11/13/08

#1 The War on Terror started shortly after September 11, 2001 to eliminate the threat of terrorists from the middle east. The War on Terror started out in Afghanistan where Osoma Bin Ladin funded and led the attacks to the world trade center in New York as well as the attack on the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the crashing of a plane that was thought to be headed for the White House. These attacks involved four airplanes that were hijacked and used as weapons.
Bush and his advisers decided to attack where they felt was the main source of the problem which was Afghanistan where Osoma Bin Ladin was hiding out. Later they sent troops to Iraq because they felt that there were terrorist threats (chemical weapons).
The two fronts in the War on Terror are Afghanistan and Iraq because that is where most of the Terrorist activity was.

#2 In my opinion, George H. W. Bush, out of the three (the others being Bill Clinton and George W. Bush), was the best president even though he broke his word about not raising taxes. When he was in office he tried to make everything work between the U.S. and other countries. With the other two presidents, Clinton and the other Bush, they were ok with other countries but they had scandals and made the economy bad which in the end made them look bad.

#3 In the 1990's there were a lot of things going on besides everyone having a good time with the strong economy. Things like Iraq invading Kuwait, the Internet becoming accessible to the public, the Columbine High School shootings and numerous other things.
Each of these things influenced us in various ways. For example, when the Internet became available to the public. At first most people probably didn't even know how to use it or even what it did but now days practically everyone, even senior citizens use it for anything from researching something to communicating to other people around the world.
Another example of how it influenced us is the Columbine High School shootings. These shootings made us question how good the safety in our high schools are and also showed that there should be more public security in places like high schools.