31.1: The Presidency of Bill Clinton
President Clinton got off to a rocky start despite Democratic majorities in both the Chamber and the Senate.
He promised to end the ban on homosexuals and bisexuals in the armed forces as a candidate.
The World Trade Organization, establishing rules on international trade, was created in 1995 by the second trade agreement
The US economy was the longest continuous growth in modern American history between 1991 and 2001.
Clinton had many conservative challenges to his moral conduct during his presidency.
Immobilize deals with him and Hillary Rodham Clinton have flown into a whitewater scandal.
31.2: Changing American Communities
In the 1990s the population of the nation grew by 32,7 million, more than any other decade in the history of the USA.
Race links continued to profit much less, on average, from the economic boom of the 1990s, with Africans and Latinos than non-Hispanic Whites.
America's growing ethnic and racial diversity both society and the expansion of rights for such groups a broad and controversial sparked as women and gays
Multiculturalism movement that has emphasized the unique characteristics and achievements of the past recent immigrants and marginal groups.
31.3: President George W. Bush and the War on Terror
Watching late-night TV newscasters project victory for Clinton's Democratic candidate, Al Gore's vice president, and then waking up the next morning to learn that perhaps Gore was not a winner, but his Republican opponent, the Governor of Texas George W. Bush's son, Georges H. W. Bush, a former president.
Two jetliners crashed into New York's World Trade Center towers on 11 September 2001 and a third airliner slammed into Virginia's Pentagon.
President Bush presented a new approach to US foreign policy at a memorial service for victims.
'Any nation still harboring or supporting terrorists,' he announced, 'from this day on shall the United States be considered to be a hostile regime.'
The president's first major test of his preventive defense policy called the Bush doctrine was Iraq. Iraq was Iraq.
Bush himself had come to believe that a U.S. military campaign was necessary to revoke Saddam Hussein, a position that was strongly supported by Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and by Paul Wolfowitz, his deputy secretary.
The keynotes of the Bush re-election 2004 were national security and the war against terrorism.
He described himself as a "wartime president" and called for patriotism and national unity as Iraq dominated the news.
President Bush directed the FEMA to coordinate the federal support for state and local governments.
President Bush directed the FEMA to coordinate this action.
The darkest shadow in Bush's last years was what was called "Bush Recession." "Bush Recession."
31.4: Barack Obama and the audacity of Hope
On 20 January 2009 the first African American president of the country was Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama was born in 1961 and born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father, a white Kansan mother.
After completing his degree from the University of New York Columbia in 1983, he moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer among low-income residents for five years.
Most of the final phase of the elections focused on the nation's and a large part of the world's economic crisis and helped to give Obama a boost over his Republican rival.
While the Democrats retained a slim majority in the Senate, the Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives and have had devastating consequences for the Obama administration.
Democrats and Republicans prepared positions on two key issues for the coming elections: the economy and the federal deficit.
