2.  What the issues of the 1992 presidential campaign?  What was Clinton’s domestic and foreign policy agenda?  What were the political events surrounding Clinton’s impeachment?

3.  Issues :  Recession  Lack of Job Creation Candidates: George HW Bush ( R) William J. Clinton ( D) H. Ross Perot ( Reform Party)

6.  Interest rates were cut, taxes were raised on middle and upper incomes, taxes on gas, oil, natural gas.  Budget surplus-1 st time in 30 years, Businesses expanded  Unemployment fell, stock market took off

7.  Clinton appointed Hillary Clinton to head a health-care reform plan  Clinton had promised affordable health care  The bill never made it through Congress

8.  Family Medical Leave Act – 12 weeks unpaid leave for birth or adoption of a child  Ameri-Corps Program – Students work in low income areas as Doctors, teachers, and cleaning up the environment.

9.  1996 – Limits were put on how long people could collect benefits  “ Block Grants ” given out to states  People moved from Welfare to Workfare  Strong Economy helped

10.  Contract with America – Promised term limits, a balanced budget amendment, tax cuts, tough crime laws, and welfare reform Newt Gingrinch

11.  Clinton (D) vs Dole ( R)  Strong Economy and Welfare Reform helped Clinton

14.  The Clinton’s were investigated for the White Water land deal in Arkansas in 1979  Did Illegal $ go towards Clinton’s run for Governor?  Independent Investigator Kenneth Starr led the investigation

15.  Starr discovered Clinton had an improper relationship with a White House Intern  Clinton was charged with lying under oath and obstruction of justice  Senate could not convict him

16.  Oklahoma City Bombing -1995  Columbine HS – 1999  World Trade Center 1993

17.  1992- US peace keepers come under fire in the African Nation of Somalia ( Black Hawk Down)  1994- Clinton dispatches troops to Haiti, to force the military leaders to step down’ ( Haitian Immigration)  1999 – NATO with US participation launched air strikes against Serbia

19.  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin & PLO leader Yassar Arafat signed a Declaration of Principles  PLO recognizes Israel’s right to exist  Israel recognized the PLO as the reps of the Palestinian people.  256 bombed in Israel by radicals  Rabin assassinated by a right wing Israeli  In July 2000, PLO rejected the all of Gaza, and 90% of the West Bank – New Palestine  Uprising & No Peace

20.  1994 -NAFTA- North American Free Trade Agreement – Canada, US, Mexico