1. What were the important events of the Clinton Presidency?
Essential Question
What were the important events of the Clinton Presidency?

2. Bill Clinton

3. 1992 Election Democrat – Bill Clinton Republican – George Bush
Independent – Ross Perot

4. Bill Clinton Governor of Arkansas
Focused on the economy in his campaign

5. Ross Perot Texas billionaire
Entered as an independent with different ideas than traditional government candidates

6. 1992 Election

7. Bill Clinton Entered the White House with great plans for change
Encountered the reality of Congress

8. Federal Deficit High deficit after Reagan and Bush
Raised tax rates for the middle and upper classes

9. Health Care
Appointed his wife Hillary to head a task force for universal health care

10. Contract with America 1994 midterm elections
Republicans won a majority in both houses of Congress
Led by Newt Gingrich

11. 1996 Election Democrat – Bill Clinton Republican – Bob Dole
Reform – Ross Perot

12. Balanced Budget 1997 – first balanced budget in 24 years
Congress and Clinton worked to shrink the deficit

13. The Whitewater Affair
Scandal – Clinton accused of arranging illegal loans for Whitewater (real estate) while governor of Arkansas

14. Paula Jones
Accused president Clinton of sexual harassment before he became president

15. Perjury
Evidence that Clinton lied under oath while testifying before a grand jury about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky

16. Impeachment
Dec. 19, 1998 – the House passed two articles of impeachment (perjury and obstruction of justice) against Clinton

17. Impeachment Removal from office requires 2/3 vote from the Senate
Failed

18. Somalia Ethnic warfare
Oct – 18 American soldiers killed as part of a peacekeeping force

19. Rwanda Ethnic genocide killed 800,000 people
Clinton refused to send troops

20. Haiti Military coup sent thousands of Haitians in boats to the U.S.
U.S. troops forced Jean-Bertrand Aristide into power

21. Serbia
Slobodan Milosevic led an ethnic cleansing to remove Muslims from this region
1995 – U.S. sent peacekeeping troops with NATO

22. Kosovo
1999 – Russian Orthodox Serbs attempted to drive Albanian Muslims out of the country
Joined with NATO to send troops

23. 1993 Bombing
World Trade Center bombed by radical Muslims

24. USS Cole
2000
Bombed by Muslim terrorists while in port at Yemen

26. Al Qaeda Network of terrorists organized by wealthy Osama bin Laden
No policy developed for dealing with Muslim extremists

27. NAFTA
1993 – U.S., Canada, and Mexico formed the North American Free Trade Agreement
Eventual creation of a free-trade zone