U.S. military campaign to force Iraqui forces out of Kuwait
What is Operation Desert Storm
100
Act which specified that gay couples would be ineligible for spousal benefits provided by federal law.
What is the Defense of Marriage Act
100
The system of interconnected computers and servers that allows the exchanged of e-mail, posting of Web sites, and other means of instant communication.
What is the internet
200
War initiated by President Bush in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
What is the Persian Gulf War
200
California legislation adopted by popular vote in California in 1994, which cuts off state-funded health and education benefits to undocumented or illegal immigrants.
What is Proposition 187
200
A part of the Internet designed to allow easier navigation of the network through the use of graphical user interfaces and hypertext links between different addresses.
What is the World Wide Web
300
A nation in southeast Europe that split off from Yugoslavia and became the site of bitter civil and religious war, requiring NATO and U.S. intervention in the 1990’s.
What is Bosnia
300
- Law that mandated automatic spending cuts if the government failed to meet fixed deficit reduction goals leading to a balanced budget by 1991
What is Gramm-Rudman
300
Movement that emphasized the unique attributes and achievements of formerly marginal groups and recent immigrants.
What is mulitculturalism
400
Province of Yugoslavia where the United States and NATO intervened militarily in 1999 to protect ethnic Albanians from expulsion
What is Kosovo
400
Agreement reached in 1993 by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to substantially reduce barriers to trade
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
400
The region of California including San Jose and San Francisco that holds the nation’s greatest concentration of electronics firms
What is Silicon Valley
500
Arkansas real estate development in which Bill and Hillary Clinton were investors; several fraud convictions resulted from investigations into Whitewater, but evidence was not found that the Clintons were involved in wrongdoing.
What is Whitewater
500
International organization that set standard and practices for global trade, and the focus of international protests over world economic policy in the late 1900’s.
What is the World Trade Organization
500
Platform proposing a sweeping reduction in the role and activities of the federal government on which many Republican candidates ran for Congress in 1994.