On September 11, 2001

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and damaged the The Pentagon near Washington, D.C., killing nearly three thousand people. In response, the Bush administration launched the global War on Terror. In October 2001, U.S. forces led an invasion of Afghanistan, removing the Taliban government and al-Qaeda training camps. Although military forces went on to kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, Taliban insurgents continue to fight a guerrilla war. In 2002, the Bush administration began to press for regime change in Iraq on controversial grounds.[48] Lacking the support of NATO or an explicit UN mandate for military intervention, Bush organized a coalition of the willing, which preemptively invaded Iraq in 2003, removing dictator Saddam Hussein. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused severe destruction along much of the Gulf Coast, devastating New Orleans. Barack Obama, the first African American president, was elected amid a global economic recession in 2008. In 2010, Obama presided over major health care and financial system reforms. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that year became the largest peacetime oil disaster in history.[49]essential oils
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