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| Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Clarence Thomas. | First 2 women and African American Supreme Court Justices |
| Sally Ride | First American woman astronaut |
| Bilingual Education | Teaching immigrant children in English as well as their native language |
| John Kennedy | President who pledged support for American Space Program |
| John Glenn | First American astronaut to orbit the earth |
| Neil Armstrong | "That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" as he became the first to step on the moon |
| CNN | The 24 hour news network that enables us to see what is going on around the world as it happens |
| Personal Computers | Technology at the finger tips |
| Cell Phones | Able to reach any one at any time by telephone from almost anywhere |
| World Wide Web | The Linking of personal computers to servers around the globe |
| Telecommuting | Working from home via a personal computer |
| Distance Learning | Taking classes from home via a personal computer |
| Jonas Salk | Found a vaccine for polio |
| Thurgood Marshall | First African American Supreme Court Justice |
| Current role of Supreme Court | Promote civil rights, protects individuals rights and right to privacy, and decide on constitutionality of laws. |
| Pres Clinton's Achievements | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), stopped Yugoslavian War, better relations with Vietnam and South Africa (after Apartheid) |
| NAFTA-North American Free Trade Agreement | Removed tariffs from trade between Canada, US, and Mexico. |
| Apartheid | Sputh African Racial Segregation--ended during Cliton Presidency/ |
| War in Yugoslavia | Serbian genocide against Bosnian Muslims, stopped by Clinton and UN |
| War in Iraq | George W. Bush went to war against Saddam Hussein; said he had weapons of mass destruction. |
| War in Afghanistan | American went to war against Al Qaeda and Taliban after 9/11; started by George W. Bush |
| Watergate Scandal | Pres Nixon (Republican) had people break into Democatic Party offices; was caught and resigned. |
| Pres George HW Bush (Father of George W) | Reunification of Germany, Kicked Iraq out of Kuwait (1st Gulf War-Operation Desert Storm); End of Cold war; reunification of Germany. |
