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| Bill Clinton | 42nd President advocated economic and healthcare reform; second president to be impeached; scandal with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and Whitewater business faults |
| NAFTA | A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. |
| Health care reform debates | The population is almost split in who wants universal and public healthcare, public option helped the universal health care supporters gain momentum, conservatives use the argument that medicare is failing so universal healthcare would too. |
| *Contract with America | In the 1994 congressional elections, Congressman Newt Gingrich had Republican candidates sign a document in which they pledged their support for such things as a balanced budget amendment, term limits for members of Congress, and a middle-class tax cut. |
| Welfare Reform Bill | Signed by Clinton in 1995 and it replaced a restriction under which you could collect welfare if you could prove that you were looking for a job. They also limited the months in which you could collect the welfare |
| Impeachment Proceedings | after Clinton confessed before a jury that he and Lewinsky had an improper relationship, the prospect of impeachment became an issue, especially in the congressional elections. The House narrowly approved 2 counts of impeachment; lying to the grand jury and obstructing justice, and the matter moved to the Senate where a trial continued for weeks without generating any significant public support. It ended with a decisive acquittal of the president. |
| Kosovo | region of Yugoslavia that had autonomy until Milosovic attempted to crush the Albanian group with ethnic cleansing; 1999 NATO used military strikes against Yugoslavia until the crisis came to an end in 1999 |
| GW Bush tax cuts | Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) |
| Human Genome Project | An international collaborative effort to map and sequence the DNA of the entire human genome. |
| AIDS epidemic | the spread of a new and lethal disease first documented in 1981, AIDS is the product of the HIV virus, which is transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids, the virus gradually destroys the immune systems and makes victims vulnerable to diseases they would normally have a resistance to. The first victims which were homosexual men were virtually certain to die, and eventually the disease spread further across the country and in other nations like Africa. |
| Planned Parenthood v. Casey | A 1992 case in which the Supreme Court loosened its standard for evaluating restrictions on abortion from one of "strict scrutiny" of any restraints on a "fundamental right" to one of "undue burden" that permits considerably more regulation. |
| Kyoto Protocol | (2005) controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. |
| 9/11 Attacks | Flights 11 and 175 flew into the twin towers in New York City and flight 93 crashed near Pennsylvania and finally flight 77 flew into the pentagon in Washington D.C. |
| War on Terrorism | U.S. launched an attack on Afghanistan that drove the Taliban from power |
| Department of Homeland Security | US federal agency created in 2002 to coordinate national efforts against terrorism |
| Patriot Act | This law passed after 9/11 expanded the tools used to fight terrorism and improved communication between law enforcement and intelligence agencies |
| Iraq War | A war fought to end Sadaam Hussein's influence in Iraq and disarm them of WMD's |
| War in Afghanistan | began on October 7, 2001,[28] as the armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom, and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance), launched Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11 attacks on the United States, with the stated goal of dismantling the Al-Qaeda terrorist organisation and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base. |
| Barrack Obama | He was the democratic Senator from Illinois who won the 2008 presidential election against McCain and the 2012 election against Romney. He is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. |
