1. Bill Clinton

2. Foreign Policy Focus on human rights:
Israel’s Yitzak Rabin and Palistine’s Yassir Arafat sign Oslo Accords.
Lifts embargo on trade with Vietnam.
Air strikes against Iraq (Saddam Hussein) in 1998.
Focus on human rights:
Bosnia suffered conflict from Serbs who began “ethnic cleansing”
Serbs (Christian) killed Bosnians (Muslim)
1995 Clinton sends troops to enforce a peace
Air strikes on Kosovo after Yugoslavian President conducted genocide
US and NATO use air strikes

3. Pre 9/11 Terrorism
1993 1st Bombing of the World Trade Center (ground level)
1995 OK federal building bombed by Timothy McVeigh, killing 168, including 18 children.
1996 a bomb rocks the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and a U.S. military complex in Saudi Arabia.
1998 Bombings of U.S.S. Cole and U.S. embassy in Kenya & Tanzania
1999 A series of school shootings begins with Columbine High School

4. 1993 World Trade Center Bombing

5. Oklahoma City Bombing

6. Olympic Bombing

7. Columbine Shooting

8. Domestic Policy: Reformed welfare; unemployment at all time low
Budget surplus
Helped bring computer/internet access to schools
Cut funding to NASA, but created a better relationship with Russia (international space station)
Increased AIDS/HIV programs by 150%
Major goal of health care reform failed
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” allows closeted gays in the military.
Passed tough pro-environmental policies
1994 Crime Bill banned assault weapons, gun crime decrease
Prisoner increase, primarily drug related

9. Domestic Policy: Scandal
Clinton had relationship with a White House intern, Monica Lewinski.
First time a major news event broke first on the internet
When it was discovered that Clinton lied about the relationship under oath in the Paula Jones civil case, the Republican Congress moved to impeach Clinton.
Although the House impeached Clinton on two counts of perjury, a vote in the Senate acquitted him of the charges.
Clinton is the 2nd President to be impeached (after Andrew Johnson)

11. George W. Bush

12. Foreign Policy: Shaped by 9/11
October 2001, anti-terrorism law
Detain suspects for 7 days w/out charges
Created the Department of Homeland Security
US began bombing Afghanistan
Afghan gov’t was harboring Osama bin Laden & al-Qaeda
2003 US invades Iraq
Bush suspected Saddam Hussein of WMD production
US troops captured Hussein and turned him over to Iraqis (crimes against humanity); hung in 2006

13. Foreign Policy: 9/11

14. 9/11 Videos 102 Minutes that Changed America
History- 9/11 Timeline

15. Domestic Policy Tax Cuts Cut federal income tax rates
No Child Left Behind Act
High standards, accountability, led to much standardized testing
Medicare Prescription Drug & Modernization Act
Patriot Act
Gave law enforcement increased, broad powers to fight terrorism
Hurricane Katrina
Slow response in aid, FEMA failures, approval rating plummeted

20. Barack Obama

21. Foreign Policy Removal of troops from Iraq Rise of the Taliban
Required troops increased in Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden (May 2011)
al Qaeda leader, responsible for 9/11, killed by Navy SEALS
Syria
Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on civilians, Obama worked with Vladimir Putin
2014- Climate agreement with China, reduce carbon emissions
2015- Led negotiations with Iran to prevent nuclear weapon
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)
Refused to send ground troops

23. Domestic Policy Diverse cabinet, “team of rivals” approach
Kept some republicans, made Hillary Clinton Sec. of State
Economic Decline
Supported $700 billion relief plan from Bush
American Recovery/Reinvestment Act (another $800 billion)
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Supreme Court upheld
Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (women)
Race to the Top Program (education)
2 women to Supreme Court
Elena Kagan & Sonia Sotomayor