Clinton
Designed to gradually eliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico and Canada
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Clinton's was only the second time in the nation's history that this had happened
Impeachment
The 2000 election came down to this state
Florida
Created to coordinate federal agencies and departments working to prevent terrorism
Department of Homeland Security
What the U.S. entered Iraq looking for in 2003
weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Proposed but never reached the floor of Congress for a vote
Low-cost health insurance
Produced a cease-fire agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia
Dayton Accords
Al Gore
Identified as the person responsible for the 9/11 attacks
Osama Bin Laden
Iraqi leader captured by the U.S. and executed by the Iraqi people
Saddam Hussein
Former governor of this state
Arkansas
Military barracks were attacked here in 1996
Saudi Arabia
An effort to raise school standards in low-income areas
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
An international network of terrorists connected to the 9/11 attacks
Al-Qaeda
Republican program that proposed lower taxes, welfare reform, tougher anticrime laws, term limits for members of Congress, and a balanced budget amendment
Contract with America
Was cleared on charges of financial misconduct in connection with this corporation
Whitewater Development Corporation
American embassies were attacked here in 1998
Kenya and Tanzania
The federal response to this was one of the most widely criticized events of Bush's presidency
Hurricane Katrina
Law granting greater power to the president and Justice Department to fight terrorism
Patriot Act
Fundamentalist regime that ruled Afghanistan until 2002
Taliban
Investigated Clinton's wrongdoings
Kenneth Starr
This was attacked in October, 2000 in Yemen resulting in the death of 17 American sailors
USS Cole
Date on which terrorists crashed passenger jets into buildings in the U.S.
September 11, 2001 (9/11)
Country where the war on terrorism was launched
Afghanistan
Leader of the congressional Republicans who passed the Contract with America legislation
Newt Gingrich