Bush/Clinton Timeline

Main

George H. W. Bush

1989 - 1993

William J. Clinton

1993 - 2001

USA

Rodney King beating

1991

Branch Davidian massacre (Waco, TX)

1993

Bombing of federal building in Oklahoma City

1995

OJ Simpson trial

1995

House impeaches Clinton

1998

Europe/Asia

Berlin Wall Torn Down

1989

Tiananmen Square

1989

USSR officially dissolves

1991

Bosnia declares independence from Yugoslavia

1992

Princess Diana killed

1997

NATO intervenes in Kosovo

1999

Middle East

Saddam Hussein (Iraq) invades Kuwait

1990

Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War)

1991

Taliban (Muslim fundamentalists) take over Afghanistan

1996

Africa

Nelson Mandela freed

1990

Civil war in Rwanda

1994

Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa

1994