America in the 1990s

Question 1

Ending the Cold War

Answer 1

• United States and Soviet Union negotiations
• Start 1 (reduced nucelar warheads to 10,000 each)
• Start 2 (reduced nucelar warheads to 3,000 each)

Question 2

Operation Desert Storm

Answer 2

• Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and threatened to invade Saudi Arabia
• United States sent 500,000 troops
• lasted 100 hours until Saddam Hussein retreated to Iraq

Question 3

George W. Bush Economy

Answer 3

• 1990 Recession due to Federal Deficits (250 billion dollars)
• new tax raised 133 billion (mainly upper class)

Question 4

Election of 1992

Answer 4

• George W. Bush (republican)
• Bill Clinton (democrat)
• Bill Clinton won because republicans felt bretrayed by President Bush raising taxes

Question 5

Bill Clinton

Answer 5

• elimintate the deficit
• provide more services to lower-class citizens
• enact stricter gun contol legislation
• allow more free trade (lower tariff rates)

Question 6

Bill Clinton Economy

Answer 6

• Deficit Reduction Bill
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• created over 10 million jobs

Question 7

Deficit Reduction Bill

Answer 7

• cut 255 million in government spending

- raised 244 million in new taxes

Question 8

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Answer 8

-free trade between Mexico and Canada

Question 9

Computer Craze

Answer 9

• computer sales/purchases made up for nearly ⅓ of the nation’s economy in 1990
• computer sales/purchases made up for nearly 1/2 of the nation’s economy in 2000
• made up 32% of the Gross Domestic Product

Question 10

Columbine School Shooting

Answer 10

• April 20th, 1999
• 12 students were killed and others were wounded
• lead to nationwide debate on gun control
• National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbied against gun control

Question 11

Terrorrism

Answer 11

• Oklahoma Federal Building
  - April 19th, 1995
  - 168 people, 19 children died
  - anarchists (Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols)

Question 12

Osama Bin Laden

Answer 12

• Saudi Prince and his group, Al-Queda, offered to defend Saudi Arabia in Soviet-Afghan War, but was rejected for the United States
• believed Saudi Arabia was becoming westernized
• expelled from Saudi Arabia for criticizing government
• terrorist attacks
  - Yemen (1992)
  
  • Luxor Massacre (1996)
  • U.S. embassy in Kenya (1998)

Question 13

Bill Clinton Impeachment

Answer 13

• Bill Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office
• lied under oath about the relationship
• second president to get impeached

Question 14

Bill Clinton Foreign Policy

Answer 14

• World Trade Organization
• International Monetary Fund
• Group of Eight (G-8)