1. UNIT 9 SEMESTER 2 CHAPTER 26/THE 1990S

2. BILL CLINTON 1993-2001

3. 1992 ELECTION

4. ROSS PEROT Won 19% of the popular vote as third party candidate Being a billionaire businessman from Texas, most experts argue that his success hurt President Bush

5. HILLARY CLINTON AND HEALTH CARE REFORM First Lady Clinton’s efforts to achieve universal healthcare coverage for all Americans failed; too many members of Congress viewed her plan as socialism

6. BALANCED BUDGETS 1999-2001

7. 1995 OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING Gulf War veteran turned anti-government militiaman Timothy McVeigh attacked the Oklahoma City Federal Building on April 19, 1995

8. OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

9. TIMOTHY McVEIGH AND TERRY NICHOLS

10. 1999 COLUMBINE SCHOOL SHOOTING On April 20, 1999, Graduating Seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students, 1 teacher and themselves during an attack on their school, Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado

11. AL-QAIDA ATTACKS 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING 1993 FIRST BATTLE OF MOGADISHU Black Hawk Down 1998 U.S. AFRICAN EMBASSY BOMBINGS 2000 ATACK ON THE U.S.S COLE 9/11

12. 1993 WTC BOMBING

13. OPERATION RESTORE HOPE In December 1992, President Bush sent troops to Somalia on a humanitarian mission to feed people suffering from famine Under President Clinton, the mission expanded when famine relief efforts were damaged by warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid

14. BLACK HAWK DOWN

15. 1998 U.S. EMBASSY BOMBINGS IN TANZANIA AND KENYA

16. 2000 ATTACK ON THE USS COLE

17. 9/11WORLD TRADE CENTER

18. 9/11 PENTAGON

19. 9/11 PENNSYLVANIA

20. UNITED FLIGHT 93

21. GENOCIDE IN RWANDA

22. GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA In an attempt to keep his hold over all of the former Yugoslavia, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic began ethnically cleansing non-Serbs in Bosnia- Herzegovina and Croatia. Murder, rape and concentration camps were rampant. In order to end the genocide, President Clinton sent troops to lead a NATO invasion.

23. THE BOSNIAN WAR

24. 1995 DAYTON PEACE ACCORDS

25. WAR IN KOSOVO In 1998-99, the Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence. After Serbia began attacking, President Clinton bombed Serbia and NATO forces occupied Kosovo as peacekeepers. Afterward, both sides of the conflict were charged with crimes against humanity.

26. NAFTA Trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico Initiated free trade between the three countries in order to create an economic alliance Has led to a transfer of U.S. manufacturing jobs to Mexico

27. IMPEACHMENT OF BILL CLINTON While investigating allegations of illegal financial deals by President Clinton, the Justice Department discovered that the President had lied under oath regarding an alleged affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

28. IMPEACHMENT OF BILL CLINTON

29. ELECTION 2000

31. PATRIOT ACT Following 9/11, the Congress passed the Patriot Act, which enabled the Executive Branch to investigate terrorism suspects without warrants

32. WAR IN IRAQ In March 2003, after several months of demanding Iraqi compliance with United Nations sanctions, the U.S. and Great Britain invaded Iraq and overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein