1. Unit 10 Exam Overview  “This is my Life” Timeline (take-home part of exam) due on Thursday (125 points)  In-class portion of exam on Friday (50 points)  35 Multiple Choice Questions (1 point each)  Chapters 28, 29, 30, 31  2 Short Answer Questions (a 10 point question and a 5 point question)  We will have a detailed review in class on Thursday

2. CLINTON YEARS

3. Clinton’s Agenda  Focus on Five Areas:  Economy  Family  Education  Crime  Health Care

4. Economy  Fix the federal deficit  Under Reagan and Bush the deficit nearly quadrupled  Lower interest rates, cut spending, raise taxes  Tax hike very unpopular after he campaigned to cut taxes  Raised taxes on middle and upper income Americans  New taxes on gasoline, heating oil, and natural gases

5. Health Care Reform  15% of Americans lacked health insurance  Task force headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton  Plan to guarantee health benefits for all Americans  Burden of paying for it on employers (Small-businesses feared this)  Doctors and insurance industry campaigned against plan  Republicans against it, Democrats divided, no plan passed

6. Families  Family Medical Leave Act  Up to 12 weeks/year of unpaid family leave for birth or adoption of a child or for illness of a family member  AmeriCorps  Students to work improving low-income housing, teaching children to read, and cleaning up the environment  Volunteers earn a salary and get a scholarship to improve education

7. Crime and Gun Control  Gun-control laws (Brady Bill)  Waiting period before purchases  Background checks  Funding for new prisons and for 100,000 more officers on the streets  Also banned 19 assault weapons and provided money for crime prevention programs

8. Republicans gain control of Congress  Clinton unpopular but successful  Raised taxes, failed to fix health care, economy improving  Newt Gingrich: Contract with America  Lower taxes, welfare reform, anticrime laws, term limits for Congress, and balanced budget amendment  Most passed in now GOP led House, but were shot down in Senate or vetoed by Clinton

9. Budget Battles  Clinton vetoes Republican budget  Gingrich refuses to negotiate or bend  Assumes Clinton will not allow gov’t to shutdown  Clinton holds ground, government closes  Republicans realize they need to work with President Clinton  Clinton regains support from Americans for holding his ground

10. 1996 Campaign  Clinton works with Republicans for Health Coverage laws and Welfare Reform  Clinton takes credit for economic boom: longest sustained growth in US history  Unemployment and inflation fell to lowest levels in 40 years  Markets soaring, crime falling

11. And the results are…

12. Clinton’s Second Term  Economy continues to grow  Balanced budget…even a surplus!  Putting Children First  Cigarette advertising bans  Health Insurance programs  Increase in Student Grants

13. Impeachment  Independent Counsel led by Kenneth Starr to look into Clinton potentially arranging illegal loans while Arkansas Governor  Scandal about personal relationship with WH intern and whether he committed perjury  Perjury: Lying under Oath  Starr concludes study and says Clinton obstructed justice, abused powers as president, and committed perjury

14. Impeachment Hearings  House of Reps passed two articles of impeachment and case moved to Senate for trial  Perjury: 55-45 not guilty  Obstruction of Justice: 50-50  Both fell far short of 2/3 vote needed

15. Foreign Policy  Haiti  Influx of refugees  UN trade embargo to try to restore democracy  Role of Jimmy Carter  Bosnia: Christian Serbs begin ethnic cleansing Bosnian Muslims (brutal expulsion of an ethnic group for a geographic area)  Some cases of slaughter instead of moving Muslims  Dayton Accords for peace

16. Kosovo  Serbs v. Albanians  Albanians want Kosovo separate from Serbia  Milosevic (Serbian Leader) cracks down on movement  Albanians organize army to fight  NATO gets involved, Serbs pull out of Kosovo

17. Middle East  Saddam Hussein and the Kurds  Israel and Palestine  Rabin and Arafat  Declaration of Principles to form Palestinian Gov’t  Opposition to agreement common; Rabin killed  Barak (new Prime Minister) meets with Arafat  Jordan and Israel