The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

850 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present A New Face: Bill Clinton In 1946 William (Bill) Clinton was born William Jeffe ...

Emergence of the Republican Majority 851 ease. His choice of running mate—Senator Al Gore of Tennessee, a Vietnam veteran, famil ...

852 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present Eager to take advantage of Clinton’s troubles, Republicans looked to the 1994 ...

Clinton’s Legacy 853 January that “there is absolutely no sex of any kind,” Clinton said that the statement was not untrue becau ...

854 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present against convict labor in China or sweatshop workers in Indonesia or Malaysia. ...

The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote 855 Israel retaliated with tank and helicopter attacks on suspected terrorist ...

856 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present when he claimed to have “invented” the Internet. Bush’s principal offense was ...

September 11, 2001 857 to seek the support of the people they had long ruled. This further destabilized the Middle East. The mil ...

858 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present equally responsible for the attack. Bin Laden, in a video recorded from an und ...

The Second Iraq War 859 biotech weapons lab committed suicide shortly after the FBI prepared to file charges against him as the ...

860 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present museums, stores, and hospitals. Saddam disappeared and his government evaporat ...

window—all black—is open, about to receive a pipe. Historians, too, look at the past from different perspectives, and sometimes ...

862 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present April, he won the Democratic nomination. He chose Senator John Edwards of Nort ...

Hurricane Katrina 863 Downtown New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. suicide. The shooting spree at Norris lasted less than ten m ...

864 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present Then the levees at Lake Pontchartrain broke, flooding much of New Orleans. Rur ...

Iraq Insurgency and Bush’s “Surge” 865 majority won most of the seats, but Kurdish leaders sought to form their own state and se ...

866 Then a monarch butterfly, in dazzling yellows and orange, wafts across the scene. life is what you make of it This last phra ...

867 his work. When his mother urged him to beg off dangerous assignments, he replied,“No, momma, I can’t do that. I have a job t ...

868 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present roars from delighted conservatives. As her joke sug- gested, Palin was a new t ...

Alarming financial news pushed the campaign out of the headlines. The Historical Significance of the 2008 Presidential Electiona ...