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| 1405437359 | George Bush | Son of a Connecticut senator, Yale graduate, WWII veteran, and Ronald Reagan's Vice President, he was elect president in 1988. | 1 | |
| 1405437360 | Election of 1988 | Between George Bush and Jesse Jackson, George Bush would win. | 2 | |
| 1405437361 | Persian Gulf War | Was an statement that showed America's readiness to use military might to pursue national interests; was a response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. | 3 | |
| 1405437362 | Savings-and-loan | A financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and making mortgage and other loans. | 4 | |
| 1405437363 | Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 | Barred discrimination against disabled persons in hiring or education. | 5 | |
| 1405437364 | Clarence Thomas | Bush's second Supreme Court appointee, he was a right wing politician who viewed individual effort, not government programs, as the avenue of upward mobility for the disadvantaged. | 6 | |
| 1405437365 | Anita Hill | Accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. | 7 | |
| 1405437366 | Bill Clinton | Running against Bush and H. Ross Perot in 1992, he won with plans to work for a national health-care system, welfare reform, and programs to promote economic growth and new technologies; he was a Rhodes scholar. | 8 | |
| 1405437367 | Madeleine K. Albright | Was placed by Clinton in 1997 as secretary of state, the highest U.S. government office ever held by a woman. | 9 | |
| 1405437368 | North American Free Trade Agreement | This pact admitted Mexico to the free-trade zone that the U.S. and Canada had created earlier. | 10 | |
| 1405437369 | Christian Coalition | Had a major influence on several state Republican parties, and represented the growing power of the religious Right wing. | 11 | |
| 1405437370 | Newt Gingrich | Author of "Contract with America", which pledged to , he was voiced the nation's discontent with America. | 12 | |
| 1405437371 | Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) | A federal assistance program that provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income. | 13 | |
| 1405437372 | Welfare Reform Act of 1996 | This law ended the largest federal program, AFDC, and left states to receive block grants to develop their own programs within strict funding limits and guidelines limiting most recipients to two years of continuous coverage, with a five-year lifetime total. | 14 | |
| 1405437373 | Globalization | The process of integration of multiple currencies into U.S. policy. | 15 | |
| 1405437374 | Kosovo | Serbia's southern province which NATO, along with U.S. leadership, bombed in response to Serbia's "ethnic cleansing" of Serbs and Muslims. | 16 | |
| 1405437375 | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) | The U.S. and Russia agreed to cut their long-range nuclear arsenals by half. | 17 | |
| 1405437376 | Osama bin Laden | A wealthy Saudi Arabian and Islamic fundamentalist militant, he had been expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991 and took refuge in Sudan, where he financed large-scale construction and agricultural projects but also planned anti-Western terrorist activities. | 18 | |
| 1405437377 | Monica Lewinsky | A young White House intern who had been in an affair with Clinton (which began in 1995), which brought Clinton to impeachment and almost conviction. | 19 | |
| 1405437378 | George W. Bush | Son of the former president, he won over the Al Gore in the election of 2000 even when losing the popular vote (thanks to Ralph Nader). | 20 | |
| 1405437379 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | She was the first presidential wife to pursue an independent political career after becoming senator of New York. | 21 | |
| 1405437380 | Oklahoma City Bombings | This came precisely 2 years after a government raid on Waco, Texas, compound of the Branch Davidians, an apocalyptic religious sect led by David Koresh, charged with firearms violations. This was one of many of the burst of violence seen in this decade. | 22 |
