US Politics and Society in the 1990s: Key Figures, Policies, and Events

Gore

Vice president running mate for Clinton

Democratic Leadership Council

Pointing party away from usual democratic values, business friendly

Family values

What republicans valued

Quayle

Vice president running teammate with George HW Bush

It's the economy, stupid

Sign that reminded staffers of Clinton's campaign theme

Perot

Colorful Texas billionaire who went for president

Baby boomer

Clinton was the first president from this generation

Ginsburg

Second women supreme justice

Don't ask, don't tell

Policy that quietly accepted gay and lesbian soldiers

Hillary Clinton

Nominated to direct the redesigning of medical service industry, first First Lady who held elective office

Oklahoma City

Where a bomb went off in a federal office building

Branch Davidians

Fundamentalist sections against federal agents

Gingrich

Georgia representative who led Contract with American campaign

Contract with America

Promised an all out assault on budget deficits and radical reductions in welfare programs, won governorships, seats in the senate and house

Welfare Reform Bill

Made deep cuts to welfare grants, required able bodied welfare recipients to find employment, Clinton signed against his wishes

Illegal Immigration Reform, Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

Led to rising tide of anti immigrant sentiment

Official language proposal

When people proposed english as the official language

Republican Revolution

As republicans won their campaigns during Clinton's administration

27 days

How long Congress shutdown

Dole

Republicans nominated for president, decorated WWII veteran

Swing voters

Voters that democrats and republicans tried to convince

Mend it, not end it

Clinton pledged for affirmative action

Proposition 209

In California where prohibited affirmative action preferences in government and higher education

Hopwood v. Texas

Court decision similar to proposition 209

O.J. Simpson

Former football star that allegedly killed his white wife

Dot com

Internet businesses

Glass-Steagall Act

Was repealed that showed loosening of federal regulation of trading

NAFTA

Created free trade in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.

WTO

Successor to GATT and had goal of free trade for all

Pink collar ghetto

Where women were paid less than men to do the same job

Family and medical leave act

Mandated job protection for working fathers and mothers

Somalia

Where Washington lost troops trying to keep peace

Rwandan genocide

Showed that what obligations did America have to intervene with humanitarian and military crises abroad

Milosevic

Serbian president who unleashed ethnic cleansing

Rabin

Israeli premier who participated in agreement over west bank and gaza

Arafat

Leader of PLO, who participated in agreement over west bank and gaza

PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization

Al Qaeda

Terrorist organization that bombed American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and USS Cole in Yemen

Osama Bin Laden

Leader of AL Qaeda, declared war on America

Fatwa

What Osama Bin Laden issued in 1998 against Americans

The Troubles

Conflict in Northern Ireland against Catholic and Protestants

Whitewater

Illegal financial transactions as Clinton was governor, didn't hurt him

Lewinsky affair

Scandal that led Clinton to impeachment

Lieberman

Was first Jew nominated to major national ticket, vice president for Gore

Cheney

Vice president candidate for George W. Bush

Kallen, Bourne

People who were for multiculturalism

Eurocentric

Traditional American curriculum

Dawson and Woods

Were proud of their interracial marriage

Dreams from My Father

What Barack Obama wrote about his racial identity as half white half black

Postmodernism

Condition of fragmented perspectives and constructed identities

Venturi, Graves

Revived decorative details of earlier historical styles

Less is a bore

Against minimalism

Gehry

Created Guggenheim Museum and Walt Disney Concert Hall

Adams, Zorn

Blended diverse musical genres and traditions

Paxton Tharp

Choreographers

Wallace

Wrote Infinite Jest about dystopian future

Whitehead

The Intuitionist, book about racial uplift

Morrison

Became first African American woman to win Nobel Prize for literature

Tarantino, Coen brothers, Bigelow

Famous cinematic directors

The Sopranos, The Wire

High quality dramas