| A | B |
|---|
| Bill Clinton | second impeached President; acquitted |
| Cal Ripken | broke all-time consecutive games played record in baseball |
| Chicago Bulls | NBA franchise; won six championships in 1990's |
| Columbine | Denver high school; tragic shooting incident in 1999 |
| Contract with America | Republicans' 1994 plan to lower government and taxes |
| Dallas Cowboys | Texas NFL franchise; won three Super Bowls in four years in 90's |
| Desert Storm | forty US day military action in 1991 to free Kuwait from Iraq |
| Heaven's Gate cult | "UFO religion" who killed themselves when the Hale Bopp comet came near earth in 1997 |
| Mark McGwire | St. Louis Cardinal single season home run king with 70 |
| McDonald's | US fast food franchise opened 1st Russian store in 90's |
| Minuteman II | defense oriented missle system used in Persian Gulf |
| George H W Bush | lost 1992 election due to "no new taxes" |
| Nolan Ryan | major league pitcher who threw 7th no-hitter in 1991 |
| Oklahoma City | in 1995, the Murrah Federal building here was bombed by an American terrorist |
| Panama Canal | control returned to Panama by US in 1999 |
| Pathfinder | US space orbiter that shot pictures of Mars back to earth in 1997 |
| Princess Diana | British Princess of Wales killed in 1997 when chased by papparazzi |
| Rodney King | African-American suspect in police brutality case in 1992 - police acquittal led to nation-wide riots |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraqi dictator who invaded and took over Kuwait |
| Unabomber | mailed bombs and hazardous materials to Congressional members |
| Waco | Texas city where David Koresh had compound stormed and taken by Fed gov't. in 1993 |
| Whitewater | Clintons' scandal from Arkansas |
| World Trade Center | large structure in Wall Street bombed by Islamic terrorists in 1993 (pre- 9/11) |
| Evander Holyfield | ear bitten by Mike Tyson in 1997 boxing match |
| impeachment | bringing charges against a government official to remove them from office |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| WWW | World Wide Web, begun in early 1990's |
| junk bonds | very weak stock trade item in 1990's (Michael Milkin) |
