U.S. HISTORY YEARBOOK

Overview of the 90s & 2000

In the 90's & 2000 there were many tragedies that occurred. Most of these tragedies were political and involved the government.

BILL CLINTON

• 42nd President from 1993 to 2001
• Signed the North America Free Trade Agreement
• Famous for scandal with Monica Lewinsky
• A stunningly successful president

GEORGE W. BUSH

• September 11 2001 Bush declared war on terrorism

OJ SIMPSON

• Later arrested in Las Vegas for armed robbery and kidnapping

BARRACK OBAMA

• First black and 44th president of America
• Won the nobel peace prize in 2009
• Barack means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
• Lived in Hawaii and Indonesia

OSAMA BIN LADEN

• Responsible for 9/11 terrorist attacks
• Raised in a great wealth
• Has 50 brothers and sisters
• Declared holy war against United States

9-11 AND WAR ON TERRORISM

• 1.8 million tons of wreckage cleaned up over 9 months

NAFTA/ GLOBALIZATION

USA PATRIOT ACT

• Allows law enforcement to use surveillance against more crimes of terror
• Law enforcement allowed to follow sophisticated terrorists trained to evade detection
• Prohibits the harboring terrorists
• Punished terrorist attacks on mass transit systems

DECADE OF WAR

• War with Iraq
• Following 9/11
• USA had to fight back on "terrorism"
• Catastrophe as bug as hurricane Katrina

DESERT STORM

• First major foreign crisis for the USA since the Cold War
• USA set troops next to Kuwait incase of attack
• 500,000 americans troops sent out

OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

• Bombing of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown OKC
• 168 people left dead
• Was worst terrorist attack on U.S. Soil until 9/11
• Timothy McVeigh was convicted on all 11 counts and sentenced to death

TV/MOVIES/music

• Toy Story 2 was released in 1999 and continues to be a very popular movie
• Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" was a chart topper in 1999

Y2K

• $308 billion dollars estimated to have been spent on remediating y2k

STEROIDS IN SPORTS

• "The steroids era" in Major League Baseball refers to when many MLB players used PED's
• In 2003 the first steroid policy was introduced in the MLB
• Many olympic athletes were banned for doping such as Justin Gatlin (U.S. Sprinter)
• Lots of controversy on the topics of steroids and PED's in baseball still

RISE OF THE INTERNET

• The first website went online on August 6, 1991
• The first ever picture on the internet was an all-girl band
• 37% of the world is estimated to use the internet
• Americans account for 78% of the internet use
• "The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow" Bill Gates

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Brainyquote.com
• History.com
• Espn.com
• Whitehouse.gov
• Wikipedia.org