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18 Heritage Studies5
Leaders of the Free World
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| George H. W. Bush | congressman, an ambassador, a Republican leader, and a vice president before being elected the US president in 1988 |
| Americans with Disabilities Act | passed by Congress in 1990 and put various measures in place for helping disabled people |
| Clean Air Act | Congress pass this in 1990 in an attempt to decrease pollution from acid rain and motor vehicles |
| Manuel Noriega | corrupt leader in Panama who surrendered to American forces |
| Boris Yeltsin | leader in the USSR who opposed the Communist coup |
| Saddam Hussein | dictator in Iraq |
| Tiananmen Square | where Chinese protestors killed in the city of Beijing |
| Oil Pollution Act | passed by Congress in 1990 in regard to the Exxon Valdez oil spill |
| Operation Desert Storm | name of the short war in the Persian Gulf in the 1990s where the US and other nations freed Kuwait from Iraqi control |
| NAFTA | agreement in the 1990s allowed trade to take place openly between the United States, Canada, and Mexico |
| Bill Clinton | defeated George H. W. Bush and Ross Perot in a presidential election |
| Newt Gingrich | Republican leader who fought Clinton’s ideas and called for a “Contract with America” |
| Mexico | country that Clinton loan twenty billion dollars to in order to keep the country stable |
| oil drilling | Clinton tried to prevent this in order to protect the environment |
| domestic act of terrorism occurred in Atlanta | American terrorist set off a bomb during the Olympic Games |
| the USS Cole | American ship was attacked by international terrorists in Yemen |
| the World Trade Center | complex of tall office buildings in New York City that was targeted by terrorists in 1993 |
| Northern Ireland | where Clinton help settle the conflict between the Loyalists and the Nationalists |
| technology in the 1990s | the introduction of cell phones, more easily used worldwide web, explosion of cable television |
| international trade during Clinton’s presidency | Congress passed the North American Free Trade Agreement, Clinton signed a bill normalizing trade with China, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade became the World Trade Organization |
| What was the economy and crime like during the 1990s? | low unemployment and a growing economy; a decrease in crime |
| What troubles did Clinton face during his second term? | donations by the Chinese Embassy supporting Clinton, Clinton lying under oath about an affair, an impeachment trial |
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