Van Halen
Tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union without direct fighting...
Cold War
World Wide Web (WWW)
U.S. President for much of the 1990's
Bill Clinton
Highly publicized criminal trial involving a former football star...
O.J. Simpson Trial
Economic system based on private ownership and profit...
Capitalism
A wall that symbolized the division of East and West Germany...
Berlin Wall
Rapid growth of internet-based businesses in the 1990's...
Dot-Com Boom
A process to charge a public official with wrongdoing...
Impeachment
British royal dies in a car crash in 1997...
Princess Di
Competition to build more powerful weapons...
Arms Race
A war fought in the Middle East after Iraq invaded Kuwait...
Gulf War
The spread of businesses, culture, and ideas across the world...
A fear that computers would fail when the year changed to 2000...
Y2K
School shooting in Colorado in 1992...
Columbine High School Shooting
Portable cassette music player...
Walkman
A body of water near the Middle East...
Persian Gulf
A trade agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Fall of the Soviet Union
System where the government controls property and industry...
Communism
Place with coin-operated video games...
Arcade
Television channel focused on music videos...
MTV
Music and cultural movement that began in urban communities...
Hip-Hop
Period of economic decline...
Recession
Rapid economic growth...
Boom
Place where shares of companies are bought and sold...
Stock Market