Timeline (Al Gore wins Florida in 2000)

The attacks had a significant economic impact on United States and world markets.[251] The stock exchanges did not open on September 11 and remained closed until September 17. Reopening, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 684 points, or 7.1%, to 8921, a record-setting one-day point decline.[252] By the end of the week, the DJIA had fallen 1,369.7 points (14.3%), at the time its largest one-week point drop in history.[253] In 2001 dollars, U.S. stocks lost $1.4 trillion in valuation for the week.[253]

In New York City, about 430,000 job-months and $2.8 billion dollars in wages were lost in the three months after the attacks. The economic effects were mainly on the economy's export sectors.[254] The city's GDP was estimated to have declined by $27.3 billion for the last three months of 2001 and all of 2002. The U.S. government provided $11.2 billion in immediate assistance to the Government of New York City in September 2001, and $10.5 billion in early 2002 for economic development and infrastructure needs.[255] Also hurt were small businesses in Lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center, 18,000 of which were destroyed or displaced, resulting in lost jobs and their consequent wages. Assistance was provided by Small Business Administration loans, federal government Community Development Block Grants, and Economic Injury Disaster Loans.[255] Some 31,900,000 square feet (2,960,000 m2) of Lower Manhattan office space was damaged or destroyed.[256] Many wondered whether these jobs would return, and if the damaged tax base would recover.[257] Studies of the economic effects of 9/11 show the Manhattan office real-estate market and office employment were less affected than first feared, because of the financial services industry's need for face-to-face interaction.[258][259] North American air space was closed for several days after the attacks and air travel decreased upon its reopening, leading to a nearly 20% cutback in air travel capacity, and exacerbating financial problems in the struggling U.S. airline industry

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is declared the winner with 171 more votes than Bush in the Sunshine State, thus giving him 291 electoral votes against 246 for Bush. The next morning, Bush conceded election to the vice president and wished him the best luck possible.
 * December 12-13 : After recount in Florida, including in invalidated voting offices, Gore

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growth of new industries, and make [American] businesses more competitive", but also stressed the need to "negotiate worker rights, human rights, and environmental protections", stating: "we should use trade to lift up standards around the world not drag down standards here at home. However, trade negociations will later be scrapped by 9/11 attacks. Putin. Together they discuss how the United States and Russia can cooperate, including on how to maintain peace in the Balkans. promising swift retaliation by declaring the War on Terrorism. That evening, he addresses the nation from the Oval Office, promising a strong response to the attacks but emphasizing the need for the nation to come together and comfort the families of the victims. holds a formal meeting with national security advisers from the CIA, NSA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and several prominent members of the U.S. Senate as well as former Presidents. They discuss the intelligence reports identifying Osama bin Laden and the terrorist organization al Qaeda as the perpetrators. After several hours of debating they all agree that an invasion of Afghanistan to remove the Taliban regime from power, who were harboring al Qaeda, was the only solution to eliminate the terrorist threat.
 * January 20 : Al Gore is inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States on January 20, 2001. His running mate Joe Lieberman is inaugurated as vice president of the United States, thus becoming the first Jew occupying this office.
 * January 29 : President Gore announces new tax cuts for middle-class while increasing taxes for riches.
 * February 2nd : The Gore administration expands programs and creates 20,000 new bureaucrats, which increases the size of government three times bigger than Bill Clinton's proposal 8 years earlier.
 * February 19 : President Al Gore cuts the budget dedicated to FBI and Intelligence programs in order to balance the budget an reduce the national debt. This proposal narrowly passed in both chambers of the Congress. These cuts are followed by cuts in defense budget.
 * March 4 : President Gore ratifies the Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which seeks to impose mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The treaty requires spending tens of billions of dollars per year for renewable energies. This procedure received praise from Canada Prime minister Jean Chretien.
 * March 5 : Gore increases gas and oil tax in order to encourage production of renewable energy rather than fossil energy production. The Republicans oppose this measure, stating that it will increase the United States much more dependant on foreign oil and will make the country unable to control and produce it's own energy.
 * March 23 : Washington announces increasing funding in nuclear and wind energy developpment to create green jobs. In longer term, that contributed to the creation of 300 000 jobs.
 * May   : During a travel in Latin America, President Gore talks about accomplishing his predecessor's work (with the creation of NAFTA in 1994) by proposing free trade between NAFTA and Latin America in order to open new markets to "spur innovation, speed the
 * June 26 : For the first time as president, Goremeets Russian President Vladimir
 * June 27 : The United States and Russia launch the objective of reducing their nuclear arsenal from 2200 to 1000 by 2012.
 * June 30 : Affriming his opposition to any anti-missile shield, President Gore plans to abolish Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), stating that it's unrealistic & too expensive. The Congress shared between Republicans and Democrats is divided on this issue, particularly in the Senate, which the half is controlled by the Republicans who oppose such a measure as well as a few Democratic Senators. Some hawkish Senators like John McCain claim that such a measure would weaken America's defense against eventual ennemies.
 * September 4 : The Electronic Bill of Rights proposed by the Gore administration is adopted by the Congress. This bill includes connection of every school to the Internet, protection of personal information, Internet self-regulation, privacy policy on all web sites and regulation of Internet privacy & child access, but not content.
 * September 9 : Afghan resistance leader against the Taliban regime Ahmad Shah Massoud is assassinated by two Algerian nationals, posing as Belgian journalists.
 * September 11: On that morning, 19 Islamic terrorists from Al-Qaida successfully fly two Boeing 747 aircraft into the World Trade Center Towers. Another plane controlled by terrorists hit the Pentagon. Another plane which was apparently suppose to crash on the White House or the Capitol in Washington didn't came in destiny : his passengers gave their lives by defying the terrorists aboard, thus crashing the plane in Pennsylvania. Later in the afternoon, President Gore speaks before a joint session of Congress,
 * September 12: President Gore and Vice President Lieberman
 * Economic effects :

meeting with Mayor Rudy Giuliani and firefighters, police officers, and volunteers. Meanwhile Gore gains an approval rating of 65 %.
 * September 13: President Gore visits Ground Zero,

approximately 2700 Americans dead, Gore speaks once again before a joint session of Congress, in which he receives the permission from both the Senate and House of Representatives to invade Afghanistan, in order to topple the Taliban regime and eliminate the terrorist organization al Qaeda. Gore also issues an ultimatum demanding that the Taliban government of Afghanistan deliver al Qaeda leaders located in Afghanistan to the United States authorities, or else they would share in their fate. and Australian forces initiates bombing campaigns on Taliban and al Qaeda forces, while U.S special forces units begin slipping into Afghanistan, with the objective of convincing and bribing local chieftains to resist the Taliban regime. The main goals of the invasion is to defeat the Taliban, drive al Qaeda out of Afghanistan, and capture key al Qaeda leaders. Afghan Northern Alliance captures Mazār-e Sharīf, thus opening supply routes and providing an important airstrip for U.S. planes and helicopters. men of the Northern Alliance. The head of the Taliban regime, Mullah Omar, manages to escape, but the Taliban is severely crippled with over 60% of its former combat strength reduced.
 * September 17: Six days after the attacks with
 * September 29: Operation Enduring Liberty when U.S., NATO
 * October 6: U.S. and UK special forces supported by the
 * October 10: 50,000 U.S soldiers begin the ground campaign, most of them by the captured airport in Mazār-e Sharīf.
 * November 16 : U.S. forces, supported by the Afghan Northern Alliance, captures the Afghan capital Kabul.
 * November 24: Kunduz is captured by the Northern Alliance.
 * November 26: Jalalabad is captured by the U.S. forces and men of the Northern Alliance.
 * December 2: Kandahar is captured by the U.S. forces and