Timeline and Terms

Events

American troops in Somalia
Anthrax attacks
Balanced Budget Act
Barack Obama elected president
Barack Obama re-elected president
Bill Clinton elected president
Bombing of Serbia
Bombing of USS Cole
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
Bush tax cuts
Clinton acquitted
Clinton re-elected
Columbine shootings
Contract with America
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Defense of Marriage Act
Democrats regained Congress
Family and Medical Leave Act
First African American secretary of state
First female secretary of state
First female Speaker of the House
George W. Bush declared president
George W. Bush re-elected
Government shutdown
Health care reform defeated
Hurricane Katrina
Iraqi elections
Kyoto Protocol
Million Man March
North American Free Trade Agreement
O.J. Simpson trial
Office of Homeland Security established
Oklahoma City bombing
Osama bin Laden killed
Power transferred to Iraqi interim government
President Bill Clinton impeached
Saddam Hussein captured
Saddam Hussein executed
Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts
September 11th terrorist attacks
Sexual harrasment ruling
Taliban collapsed
Terrorist attacks on US embassies
US invasion of Iraq
US operations against al-Qaeda and Taliban
US troops in Haiti
USA Patriot Act
Waco standoff
Welfare reform
World Trade Center bombing
World Trade Organization protests
World Wide Web went public

People

Al Gore
Alan Greenspan
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
Colin Powell
Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Hillary Clinton
Joe Biden
John McCain
Madeleine Albright
Monica Lewinsky
Muammar Qaddafi
Nancy Pelosi
Osama bin Laden
Ross Perot
Saddam Hussein
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sarah Palin
William Rehnquist

Organizations

al-Qaeda
Federal National Mortgage Association
Group of Eight
Taliban
World Trade Organization