APUSH 41 Simple IDs

Democratic Leadership Council

”Centrist” Democratic organization that promoted Bill Clinton’s candidacy as a “new” Democrat

Don’t ask, don’t tell

Shorthand phrase for compromise policy that emerged after Clinton’s failed attempt to end ban on gays and lesbians in the military

Branch Davidians

Fundamentalist group whose compound in Waco, Texas, was assaulted by federal agents in 1993

Columbine High School

Colorado high school where a deadly shooting in 1999 stirred a national movement against guns and gun violence

Contract with America

Conservative campaign platform that led to a sweeping Republican victory in the 1994 mid-term elections

Reform Party

H. Ross Perot’s third party that in 1996 received less than half the votes Perot had garnered in 1992

World Trade Organization

International trade organization that prompted strong protests from anti-global trade forces in Seattle, Washington in 1999

Haiti

Caribbean nation where Clinton sent twenty thousand American troops to restore ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power

Whitewater

Clinton Arkansas investment deal that spurred a federal special prosecutor and led to widespread investigations of his administration

Green Party

Third party led by environmentalist Ralph Nader that took votes from Democratic presidential nominee Albert Gore in 2000 election

Electoral College

Constitutional institution for choosing presidents that came under severe criticism after the 2000 popular vote winner failed to win the office

Pentagon

The other site of direct attack by terrorists on September 11, 2001, besides the twin towers of the World Trade Center

al-Qaeda

The international terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden

Patriot Act

Controversial law restricting civil liberties passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks

Abu Ghraib

Iraqi prison where alleged American abuse of Iraqi prisoners inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraq and beyond

William J. Clinton

The first “baby boomer” president who was the first Democrat elected to two full terms since Franklin Roosevelt

H. Ross Perot

Texas billionaire who won nearly twenty percent of the popular vote as third-party candidate in 1992

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First presidential spouse to be given major policy responsibilities and to win election to the United States Senate

Robert Dole

1996 Republican presidential nominee who was soundly defeated by Bill Clinton

Newt Gingrich

Fiery Republican Speaker of the House who led his party to great victory in 1994 but resigned after Republican losses in 1998

John McCain

Moderate Republican senator who led the crusade for campaign finance reform but lost 2000 presidential nomination to George W. Bush

Slobodan Milosevic

Serbian president who conducted vicious “ethnic cleansing” campaigns and was eventually forced from office

Monica Lewinsky

Young White House intern whose sexual affair with President Clinton led to his impeachment

William Rehnquist

Chief Justice of the United States who presided at the impeachment trial of President Clinton

Al Gore

President Clinton’s loyal vice president who won the most popular votes but lost the election of 2000

George W. Bush

Son of a former president whose narrow election as president in 2000 did not prevent him from pursuing a strong conservative agenda in office

Richard Cheney

George W. Bush’s vice president who vigorously promoted conservative domestic policies and the invasion of Iraq

Osama bin Laden

Wealthy Saudi Arabian exile who formed a global terrorist network that assaulted the United States

Saddam Hussein

Long time Iraqi dictator who was overthrown by invading American armies in 2003

John Ashcroft

George W. Bush’s controversial attorney general who sharply restricted civil liberties and detained or deported immigrants suspected of terrorism