1990s
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37 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Somalia | 1993 Civil War and starvation tried to send food but Mohamed Farrah Aidid killed the people waiting and took the food and gave it out Us sent in troops but pulled out after we got killed |
| Haiti | 1994 Haiti Military trying to over throw Haiti government- Refugee crisis Clinton sends military so refugees go home |
| Bosnia | 1995 Since 1991 Serbia has been attacking Croatia and Bosnia |
| Religion (Serbia is orthodox christians Croatia is catholics and Bosnia is muslim) History (WWII) Population (Serbians live in Croatia & Bosnia) Ethnic Cleansing (Genocide) | 4 reasons why Serbia is attacking Croatia and Bosnia |
| Dayton Peace Accords | peace treaty for the Serbia vs Croatia and Bosnia war |
| Iraq | 1998 randomly weapon search but wouldn't let in to search so we bombed Baghdad |
| Operation Desert Fox | four days of intense bombing on Baghdad |
| kosovo | 1999 Serbians killing Serbians bc 1. ethnically more Albanian 2. muslim |
| Sobodan Milosevic | Serbia's Hitler - in charge of genocide and we placed him on trial |
| Health Care Reform | Under Hilary Clinton and failed 1993 |
| Welfare Reform | 1996 Encouraged people to work by matching income + $1000 |
| World Trade Center | 6 killed 1040 injured Iraq bc in gulf war, US left military there |
| Oklahoma City Bombing | 1995 168 Killed Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols |
| Hezbollah | 1996 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 19 soldiers killed at military base |
| US embassy | Nairobi, Kenya and Dares Salaam, Tanzania 224 Killed |
| USS Cole | 2000 Yemen 17 sailors killed |
| Newt Gingrich | Speaker of the House In charge of the republican take over in congress |
| Contract With America | elect republicans and we will fulfill promises |
| Government Shutdown | November 1995 for one week Clinton put blame on Republicans |
| Zagreb | Croatia's capital |
| Belgrade | capital of Serbia |
| Ecoptpia | west because of its varied scenery and ecological attractions |
| Sunbelt | south and southwest because warm climate |
| rustbelt | North Central Northeast because many aging factories had been closed |
| Service sector | the part of the economy that provides services to consummers. increased in 1990s nearly 80% |
| Downsizing | trim payrolls to streamline operations and increase profits instead of investing in salaries and full time staff |
| Alan Greenspan | chairman of the federal reserve system since 1987. appointed by RR. helps determine how much $ there will be in the American Economy |
| Bill Gates | the decades most celebrated entrepreneur founded software co Microsoft. $60 billion |
| NASDAQ | a technology dominated stock index on wall street |
| Dotcoms | high tech businesses ".com" expanded rapidly and attracted young talent |
| Shawn Fanning | 18 years old started Napster, music downloading business |
| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | GATT lowered trade barriers and established WTO |
| World Trade Organization | WTO resolved trade disputes |
| Information Superhighway | a network of comminication devices linking people and industries across the nation and world |
| internet | an international network linking computers and allowing almost instant transmittal original for US defense for defense research |
| telecommunication act of 1996 | removed barriers that had previously prevented one type of communications co from starting up or buying another |
| General Colin Powell | General in iraq |
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