The Clinton Years, or the 1990s.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Crash Course US History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 minutes)

Other Title:

The Clinton Years, or the 1990s Crash Course US History

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Crash Course US History, [date of publication not identified]

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In which John Green teaches you about the United States as it was in the 1990s. You'll remember from last week that the old-school Republican George H.W. Bush had lost the 1992 presidential election to a young upstart Democrat from Arkansas named Bill Clinton. Clinton was a bit of a dark horse candidate, having survived a sex scandal during the election, but a third party run by Ross Perot split the vote, and Clinton was inaugurated in 1993. John will teach you about Clinton's foreign policy agenda, which included NATO action in the Balkans and the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO. He'll also cover some of the domestic successes and failures of the Clinton years, including the failed attempt at healthcare reform, the pretty terrible record on GLBTQ issues, Welfare reform, which got mixed reviews, and the happier issues like the huge improvements in the economy. Also computers. Cheap, effective, readily available computers came along in the 1990s and they kind of changed the world, culminating in this video, which is the end of the internet. Until next week.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed November 16, 2021).

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