Bush to Trump

Michael Dukakis

Dan Quayle

“read my lips—no new taxes”

Tiananmen Square

Breakup of Soviet Union 1990

Boris Yeltsin

START I & II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)

Manuel Noriega

Invasion of Panama

Persian Gulf War

Saddam Hussein

Kuwait

Desert Storm

Norman Schwarzkopf

Americans with Disabilities Act 1990

Rodney King

LA Riots

Exxon Valdez

27th Amendment

William Jefferson Clinton

Ross Perot

Albert Gore

Filibuster

Brady Handgun bill (Brady Bill)

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) ‘93

Newt Gingrich

Contract with America

Monica Lewinsky

1993 World Trade Center Bombing

Oklahoma City Bombing, 1995

Timothy McVeigh

Columbine

Matthew Sheppard

Kyoto Protocol

Condoleezza Rice

Family and Medical Leave Act

Bob Dole

Whitewater Real Estate Deal

Clinton Impeachment

Madeleine Albright

Janet Reno

Somalia, 1993

Yugoslavia

South Africa

Vladimir Putin

Slobodan Milosevic, ethnic cleansing

Nuclear proliferation

globalization

WTO (World Trade Organization)

World Bank

European Union (EU), euro

Group of Seven (G-7), G-8

Election of 2000, Bush v. Gore

No Child Left Behind

Enron

1998 – Kenya/Tanzania embassy bombing

September 11, 2001

Axis of Evil

General Colin Powell

Osama bin Laden

Al Qaeda

Taliban

War on Terror

USS Cole in Yemen

USA Patriot Act

War in Afghanistan

Department of Homeland Security

Iraq War

Election of 2004

Election of 2008

Election of 2012, 2016

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Abu Ghraib

Hurricane Katrina

Housing Bubble

Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

Real Estate Collapse

Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama

John McCain

Sarah Palin

growth of technology

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

“Obamacare”

Trump

Joe Biden

trends in healthcare

globalization, the US & World Affairs

International finance