4/25/2013 Flashcards
- Americans at the start of the new century were more connected to other people worldwide than ever before, n was a 1990s buzzword and went beyond trade and investment to include connections in commerce, communications, and culture.
Globalization
Racial tensions erupted in Los Angeles in 1992. A jury (with no African American members) acquitted four white police officers charged with beating an African American man, __________, who fled a pursuing police car at speeds exceeding 110 miles per hour
Rodney King
On election day, Americans denied George Bush a second term. ______, a Texas billionaire who claimed he would bring economic common sense to the federal government, claimed almost 20 percent of the popular vote—the highest percentage for a third-party candidate in eighty years—but did not carry a single state (reform party candidate)
Ross Perot
succeeds Bush, scandal in white house
Bill Clinton
- was the first First Lady to have a significant career of her own, and she spoke of balancing her professional and family life.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
helps Republicans win majorities in House and Senate. Developed under the leadership of Georgia representative Newt Gingrich, the Contract promised “the end of [big] government . . .[and] the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.” It called for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, reduction of the capital gains tax, a two-year limit on welfare payments (while making unmarried mothers under eighteen ineligible), and increased defense spending.
Contract with America
developed the contract with America, also served as republican speaker of the house
Newt Gingrich
)- The heart of this technological revolution was the ______. Introduced in 1970 by Intel, it miniaturized the central processing unit of a computer, meaning small machines could now perform calculations previously requiring large machines.
microprocessor (microchip)-
The rapid development of what came to be called information technology—computers, fax machines, cell phones, and the ____ had a huge economic impact in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Internet
.S. officials lowered trade and investment barriers, completing the (_____) with Canada and Mexico in 1993
NAFTA
North America free trade agreement
The administration also endorsed the 1995 creation of the (____), to administer and enforce agreements made at the Uruguay Round.
WTO
World trade organization
In 1992 Bush sent U.S. Marines to the East African nation as part of a U.N. effort to ensure that humanitarian supplies reached starving people in ____. But in summer 1993, when Americans came under deadly attack, Clinton withdrew U.S. troops
Somalia
where in 1994 the majority Hutus butchered 800,000 of the minority Tutsis in a brutal civil war.
Rwanda
Herzegovina- Humanitarian intervention faced a test in the Balkans, where Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats were killing one another. Clinton talked tough against Serbian aggression and atrocities in _______, especially the Serbs’ ethnic cleansing of Muslims through massacres and rape camps. He occasionally ordered air strikes, but he primarily emphasized diplomacy. In late 1995, U.S. diplomats brokered a fragile peace.
Bosnia
NATO bombs Serbia over _______ crisis, When Serb forces moved to violently rid _____ of its majority ethnic Albanians, reports of Serbian atrocities and a major refugee crisis stirred world opinion and pressed Clinton to intervene
Kosovo
