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
On February 26, 1993, terrorists drove a rental van into a parking garage under the World Trade Center’s twin towers and lit the fuses on a homemade bomb stuffed inside. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the massive explosion, which carved out a crater several stories deep and propelled smoke into the upper reaches of the skyscrapers. At the time, it was one of the worst terrorist attacks ever to occur on U.S. soil.

5. Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on April 19, 1995, outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, leaving 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti- government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.

6. Olympic Bombing
In Atlanta, Georgia, the XXVI Summer Olympiad is disrupted by the explosion of a nail-laden pipe bomb in Centennial Olympic Park. The bombing, which occurred during a free concert, killed a mother who had brought her daughter and injured more than 100 others. Police were warned of the bombing in advance, but the bomb exploded before the anonymous caller said it would, leading authorities to suspect that the law enforcement officers who descended on the park were indirectly targeted.

7. Columbine Shooting
At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, two teens went on a shooting spree on April 20, 1999, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide. The Columbine shooting was, at the time, the worst high school shooting in U.S. history and prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the gunmen, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17.

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
9/11 Boat Rescue

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