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Unit 13 1990s

  • Hilary Clinton

    Hilary Clinton
    is an American politician and diplomat who was the 67th United States Secretary of State from serving under President Barack Obama. She was previously a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009.
  • Greenpeace

    Greenpeace
    an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea
  • Donald Rumsfield

    Donald Rumsfield
    is an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense.
  • Sonya Sotomayor

    Sonya Sotomayor
    is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice
  • Osama bin Laden

    Osama bin Laden
    was the founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein
    was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party.
  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush
    is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States a congressman, an ambassador and Director of Central Intelligence
  • Collapse of soviet union

    Collapse of soviet union
    was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration № 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of the twelve republics of the Soviet Union that subsequently created the Commonwealth of Independent States.
  • WTO

    WTO
    is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948.
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush
    is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, he was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Kyoto Protocol

    Kyoto Protocol
    is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The UNFCCC is an environmental treaty with the goal of preventing "dangerous" anthropogenic interference of the climate system.
  • USA PATRIOT Act

    USA PATRIOT Act
    is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. The title of the act is a ten letter acronym (USA PATRIOT) that stands for Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall.
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008

    American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008
    and commonly referred to as the Stimulus or The Recovery Act, was an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama.
  • Sierra Club

    Sierra Club
    is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States. It was in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president. The Sierra Club has hundreds of thousands of members in chapters located throughout the United States and is affiliated with Sierra Club Canada.
  • Third party candidates 9/11

    Third party candidates 9/11
    is a term that is commonly used in the United States to refer to political parties other than the two major parties, which are the Democratic Party and Republican Party. An independent candidate is one who runs for office with no formal party affiliation.
  • International Criminal Court

    International Criminal Court
    is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression