{"id":1919,"date":"2021-08-02T03:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1919"},"modified":"2022-09-28T03:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T03:27:45","slug":"foreign-policy-and-the-end-of-clintons-presidency","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/chapter\/foreign-policy-and-the-end-of-clintons-presidency\/","title":{"raw":"Foreign Policy and the End of Clinton's Presidency","rendered":"Foreign Policy and the End of Clinton&#8217;s Presidency"},"content":{"raw":"<section id=\"fs-idp124238160\" data-depth=\"1\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Discuss President Clinton\u2019s foreign policy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explain why Clinton was impeached<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp17996704\">For decades, the contours of the Cold War had largely determined U.S. action abroad. Strategists saw each coup, revolution, and civil war as part of the larger struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.\u00a0 With the Soviet Union vanquished, the United States was largely free of this paradigm.<\/p>\r\nAfter Operation Desert Storm, U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s entered a period of relative calm for America. Some analysts argued that Americans were witnessing the final victory of liberal democracy, and had largely lost interest in foreign affairs. Nevertheless, the United States was still engaged in world affairs and wars around the world. The Clinton administration intervened abroad to support democracy and to solve humanitarian crises in Haiti, Somalia, and the Balkans. Clinton withdrew U.S. forces from Somalia after they were attacked in Mogadishu and suffered approximately 100 casualties in urban fighting, but he backed NATO bombing campaigns to stop ethnic cleansing (i.e., genocide) in Bosnia and Kosovo.\r\n<h2 data-type=\"title\">Clinton's Foreign Policy<\/h2>\r\nPresident Clinton approached international crises in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa on their own terms and deal with them accordingly. He envisioned a post-Cold War role in which the United States used its overwhelming military superiority and influence as global policing tools to preserve the peace. This foreign policy strategy had both success and failure.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"390\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/884\/2015\/08\/23203446\/CNX_History_31_04_Oslo.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph shows Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shaking hands. Bill Clinton stands between them with his arms open in a welcoming gesture.\" width=\"390\" height=\"265\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/> <strong>Figure 1<\/strong>. Yitzhak Rabin (left) and Yasser Arafat (right), shown with Bill Clinton, signed the Oslo Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993. Rabin was killed two years later by an Israeli who opposed the treaty.[\/caption]\r\n<h3>The Oslo Accords<\/h3>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp51889168\">One notable success was a level of peace in the Middle East. In September 1993, at the White House, Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, signed the<strong> Oslo Accords<\/strong>, granting some self-rule to Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. A year later, the Clinton administration helped facilitate the second settlement and normalization of relations between Israel and Jordan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>War in the Balkans<\/h3>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm153867472\">As a small measure of stability was brought to the Middle East, violence erupted in the Balkans. The Communist country of Yugoslavia consisted of six provinces: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Macedonia. Each was occupied by a number of ethnic groups, some of which shared a history of hostile relations. In May 1980, the leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, died. Without him to hold the country together, ethnic tensions increased, and this, along with the breakdown of Communism elsewhere in Europe, led to the breakup of Yugoslavia. In 1991, Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia declared their independence. In 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina did as well. Only Serbia and Montenegro remained united as the Serbian-dominated Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm227572768\">Almost immediately, ethnic tensions within Bosnia and Herzegovina escalated into war when Yugoslavian Serbs aided Bosnian Serbs who did not wish to live in an independent Bosnia and Herzegovina. These Bosnian Serbs proclaimed the existence of autonomous Serbian regions within the country and attacked Bosnian Muslims and Croats. During the conflict, the Serbs engaged in genocide, described by some as \u201cethnic cleansing.\u201d The brutal conflict also gave rise to the systematic rape of \u201cenemy\u201d women\u2014generally Muslim women exploited by Serbian military or paramilitary forces. The International Criminal Tribunal of Yugoslavia estimated that between twelve thousand and fifty thousand women were raped during the war.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm216181504\">NATO eventually intervened in 1995, and Clinton agreed to U.S. participation in airstrikes against Bosnian Serbs. That year, the Dayton Accords peace settlement was signed in Dayton, Ohio. Four years later, the United States, acting with other NATO members, launched an air campaign against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia to stop it from attacking ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Although these attacks were not sanctioned by the UN and were criticized by Russia and China, Yugoslavia withdrew its forces from Kosovo in June 1999.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm153721184\">The use of force did not always bring positive results. For example, back in December 1992, George H. W. Bush had sent a contingent of U.S. soldiers to Somalia, initially to protect and distribute relief supplies to civilians as part of a UN mission. Without an effective Somali government, however, the warlords who controlled different regions often stole food, and their forces endangered the lives of UN workers. In 1993, the Clinton administration sent soldiers to capture one of the warlords, Mohammed Farah Aidid, in the city of Mogadishu. The resulting battle proved disastrous. A Black Hawk helicopter was shot down, and U.S. Army Rangers and members of Delta Force spent hours battling their way through the streets; eighty-four soldiers were wounded and nineteen died. The United States withdrew, leaving Somalia to struggle with its own anarchy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>America Fails to Intervene in Rwanda Genocide<\/h3>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm207484080\">The sting of the Somalia failure probably contributed to Clinton\u2019s reluctance to send U.S. forces to end the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. In the days of brutal colonial rule, Belgian administrators had given control to Tutsi tribal chiefs, although Hutus constituted a majority of the population. Resentment over ethnic privileges, and the discrimination that began then and continued after independence in 1962, erupted into civil war in 1980. The Hutu majority began to slaughter the Tutsi minority and their Hutu supporters. In 1998, while visiting Rwanda, Clinton apologized for having done nothing to save the lives of the 800,000 massacred in one hundred days of genocidal slaughter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\r\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\r\nhttps:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/ffbfe536-65ed-4f9c-8253-cc2153ee0eb2\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2 data-type=\"title\">Impeachment<\/h2>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp36087520\">Public attention was diverted from Clinton\u2019s foreign policing actions by a series of scandals that marked the last few years of his presidency. From the moment he entered national politics, his opponents had attempted to tie Clinton and his First Lady to a number of loosely defined improprieties, even accusing him of murdering his childhood friend and Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster. One accusation the Clintons could not shake was of possible improper involvement in a failed real estate venture associated with the Whitewater Development Corporation in Arkansas in the 1970s and 1980s. Kenneth Starr, a former federal appeals court judge, was appointed to investigate the matter in August 1994.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"390\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/884\/2015\/08\/23203447\/CNX_History_31_04_Senate.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph shows an aerial view of proceedings on the Senate floor during Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment trial.\" width=\"390\" height=\"262\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/> <strong>Figure 2<\/strong>. Floor proceedings in the U.S. Senate during the 1998 impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, who was narrowly acquitted of both charges.[\/caption]\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp127560688\">While Starr was never able to prove any wrongdoing, he soon turned up other allegations and his investigative authority was expanded. In May 1994, Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton. Starr\u2019s office began to investigate this case as well. When a federal court dismissed Jones\u2019s suit in 1998, her lawyers promptly appealed the decision and submitted a list of other alleged victims of Clinton\u2019s harassment. That list included the name of Monica Lewinsky, a young White House intern. Both Lewinsky and Clinton denied under oath that they had had a sexual relationship. The evidence, however, indicated otherwise, and Starr began to investigate the possibility that Clinton had committed perjury. Again, Clinton denied any relationship and even went on national television to assure the American people that he had never had sexual relations with Lewinsky.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp189963584\">However, after receiving a promise of immunity, Lewinsky turned over to Starr evidence of her affair with Clinton, and the president admitted he had indeed had inappropriate relations with her. He nevertheless denied that he had lied under oath. In September, Starr reported to the House of Representatives that he believed Clinton had committed perjury. Voting along partisan lines, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives sent articles of<strong> impeachment<\/strong> to the Senate, charging Clinton with lying under oath and obstructing justice. In February 1998, the Senate voted forty-five to fifty-five on the perjury charge and fifty-fifty on obstruction of justice. Although acquitted, Clinton did become the first president to be found in contempt of court. Nevertheless, although he lost his law license, he remained a popular president and left office at the end of his second term with an approval rating of 66 percent, the highest of any U.S. president.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/section><section id=\"fs-idp226756064\" data-depth=\"1\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\r\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\r\nhttps:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/361080f7-941c-4b11-82ef-c5344f2ce9c7\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\r\n<h3>Watch it<\/h3>\r\nWatch this video for a recap of the major political and economic events of the 1990s.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/-rboN6F2g-k?t=1s\r\n\r\nYou can view the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/US+history+II\/TheClintonYearsorthe1990sCrashCourseUSHistory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript for \u201cThe Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45\u201d here (opens in new window)<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\r\n<h3>Review Question<\/h3>\r\nWhat were some of the foreign policy successes of the Clinton administration?\r\n[reveal-answer q=\"21972\"]Show Answer[\/reveal-answer]\r\n[hidden-answer a=\"21972\"]Clinton helped to arrange peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and between Israel and Jordan. During his administration, the United States participated in airstrikes that helped to end Serbian aggression in the region of Kosovo and the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[\/hidden-answer]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Glossary<\/h3>\r\n<strong>Oslo Accords:<\/strong>\u00a0a pair of agreements between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993 and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995. The Oslo Accords marked the start of a peace process aimed at achieving a peace treaty and resulted in the recognition by the PLO of the State of Israel and the recognition by Israel of the PLO. A major controversy of the\u00a0Oslo Accords was the failure to create a Palestinian state.\r\n\r\n<strong>Impeachment:<\/strong>\u00a0the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. Article One of the United States Constitution provides that the House of Representatives has the \"sole Power of Impeachment\" and the Senate has \"the sole Power to try all Impeachments.\" Article Two provides that \"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. In the United States, impeachment is the first of two stages; an official may be impeached by a majority vote of the House, but conviction and removal from office in the Senate requires \"the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>Green Party:\u00a0<\/strong>a political party founded in 1984 that advocates environmentalism and grassroots democracy\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>","rendered":"<section id=\"fs-idp124238160\" data-depth=\"1\">\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss President Clinton\u2019s foreign policy<\/li>\n<li>Explain why Clinton was impeached<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idp17996704\">For decades, the contours of the Cold War had largely determined U.S. action abroad. Strategists saw each coup, revolution, and civil war as part of the larger struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.\u00a0 With the Soviet Union vanquished, the United States was largely free of this paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>After Operation Desert Storm, U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s entered a period of relative calm for America. Some analysts argued that Americans were witnessing the final victory of liberal democracy, and had largely lost interest in foreign affairs. Nevertheless, the United States was still engaged in world affairs and wars around the world. The Clinton administration intervened abroad to support democracy and to solve humanitarian crises in Haiti, Somalia, and the Balkans. Clinton withdrew U.S. forces from Somalia after they were attacked in Mogadishu and suffered approximately 100 casualties in urban fighting, but he backed NATO bombing campaigns to stop ethnic cleansing (i.e., genocide) in Bosnia and Kosovo.<\/p>\n<h2 data-type=\"title\">Clinton&#8217;s Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n<p>President Clinton approached international crises in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa on their own terms and deal with them accordingly. He envisioned a post-Cold War role in which the United States used its overwhelming military superiority and influence as global policing tools to preserve the peace. This foreign policy strategy had both success and failure.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/884\/2015\/08\/23203446\/CNX_History_31_04_Oslo.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph shows Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shaking hands. Bill Clinton stands between them with his arms open in a welcoming gesture.\" width=\"390\" height=\"265\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 1<\/strong>. Yitzhak Rabin (left) and Yasser Arafat (right), shown with Bill Clinton, signed the Oslo Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993. Rabin was killed two years later by an Israeli who opposed the treaty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The Oslo Accords<\/h3>\n<p id=\"fs-idp51889168\">One notable success was a level of peace in the Middle East. In September 1993, at the White House, Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, signed the<strong> Oslo Accords<\/strong>, granting some self-rule to Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. A year later, the Clinton administration helped facilitate the second settlement and normalization of relations between Israel and Jordan.<\/p>\n<h3>War in the Balkans<\/h3>\n<p id=\"fs-idm153867472\">As a small measure of stability was brought to the Middle East, violence erupted in the Balkans. The Communist country of Yugoslavia consisted of six provinces: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Macedonia. Each was occupied by a number of ethnic groups, some of which shared a history of hostile relations. In May 1980, the leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, died. Without him to hold the country together, ethnic tensions increased, and this, along with the breakdown of Communism elsewhere in Europe, led to the breakup of Yugoslavia. In 1991, Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia declared their independence. In 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina did as well. Only Serbia and Montenegro remained united as the Serbian-dominated Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm227572768\">Almost immediately, ethnic tensions within Bosnia and Herzegovina escalated into war when Yugoslavian Serbs aided Bosnian Serbs who did not wish to live in an independent Bosnia and Herzegovina. These Bosnian Serbs proclaimed the existence of autonomous Serbian regions within the country and attacked Bosnian Muslims and Croats. During the conflict, the Serbs engaged in genocide, described by some as \u201cethnic cleansing.\u201d The brutal conflict also gave rise to the systematic rape of \u201cenemy\u201d women\u2014generally Muslim women exploited by Serbian military or paramilitary forces. The International Criminal Tribunal of Yugoslavia estimated that between twelve thousand and fifty thousand women were raped during the war.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm216181504\">NATO eventually intervened in 1995, and Clinton agreed to U.S. participation in airstrikes against Bosnian Serbs. That year, the Dayton Accords peace settlement was signed in Dayton, Ohio. Four years later, the United States, acting with other NATO members, launched an air campaign against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia to stop it from attacking ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Although these attacks were not sanctioned by the UN and were criticized by Russia and China, Yugoslavia withdrew its forces from Kosovo in June 1999.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm153721184\">The use of force did not always bring positive results. For example, back in December 1992, George H. W. Bush had sent a contingent of U.S. soldiers to Somalia, initially to protect and distribute relief supplies to civilians as part of a UN mission. Without an effective Somali government, however, the warlords who controlled different regions often stole food, and their forces endangered the lives of UN workers. In 1993, the Clinton administration sent soldiers to capture one of the warlords, Mohammed Farah Aidid, in the city of Mogadishu. The resulting battle proved disastrous. A Black Hawk helicopter was shot down, and U.S. Army Rangers and members of Delta Force spent hours battling their way through the streets; eighty-four soldiers were wounded and nineteen died. The United States withdrew, leaving Somalia to struggle with its own anarchy.<\/p>\n<h3>America Fails to Intervene in Rwanda Genocide<\/h3>\n<p id=\"fs-idm207484080\">The sting of the Somalia failure probably contributed to Clinton\u2019s reluctance to send U.S. forces to end the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. In the days of brutal colonial rule, Belgian administrators had given control to Tutsi tribal chiefs, although Hutus constituted a majority of the population. Resentment over ethnic privileges, and the discrimination that began then and continued after independence in 1962, erupted into civil war in 1980. The Hutu majority began to slaughter the Tutsi minority and their Hutu supporters. In 1998, while visiting Rwanda, Clinton apologized for having done nothing to save the lives of the 800,000 massacred in one hundred days of genocidal slaughter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\n<p>\t<iframe id=\"assessment_practice_ffbfe536-65ed-4f9c-8253-cc2153ee0eb2\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/ffbfe536-65ed-4f9c-8253-cc2153ee0eb2?iframe_resize_id=assessment_practice_id_ffbfe536-65ed-4f9c-8253-cc2153ee0eb2\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;width:100%;height:100%;min-height:300px;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 data-type=\"title\">Impeachment<\/h2>\n<p id=\"fs-idp36087520\">Public attention was diverted from Clinton\u2019s foreign policing actions by a series of scandals that marked the last few years of his presidency. From the moment he entered national politics, his opponents had attempted to tie Clinton and his First Lady to a number of loosely defined improprieties, even accusing him of murdering his childhood friend and Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster. One accusation the Clintons could not shake was of possible improper involvement in a failed real estate venture associated with the Whitewater Development Corporation in Arkansas in the 1970s and 1980s. Kenneth Starr, a former federal appeals court judge, was appointed to investigate the matter in August 1994.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/884\/2015\/08\/23203447\/CNX_History_31_04_Senate.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph shows an aerial view of proceedings on the Senate floor during Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment trial.\" width=\"390\" height=\"262\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 2<\/strong>. Floor proceedings in the U.S. Senate during the 1998 impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, who was narrowly acquitted of both charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idp127560688\">While Starr was never able to prove any wrongdoing, he soon turned up other allegations and his investigative authority was expanded. In May 1994, Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton. Starr\u2019s office began to investigate this case as well. When a federal court dismissed Jones\u2019s suit in 1998, her lawyers promptly appealed the decision and submitted a list of other alleged victims of Clinton\u2019s harassment. That list included the name of Monica Lewinsky, a young White House intern. Both Lewinsky and Clinton denied under oath that they had had a sexual relationship. The evidence, however, indicated otherwise, and Starr began to investigate the possibility that Clinton had committed perjury. Again, Clinton denied any relationship and even went on national television to assure the American people that he had never had sexual relations with Lewinsky.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idp189963584\">However, after receiving a promise of immunity, Lewinsky turned over to Starr evidence of her affair with Clinton, and the president admitted he had indeed had inappropriate relations with her. He nevertheless denied that he had lied under oath. In September, Starr reported to the House of Representatives that he believed Clinton had committed perjury. Voting along partisan lines, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives sent articles of<strong> impeachment<\/strong> to the Senate, charging Clinton with lying under oath and obstructing justice. In February 1998, the Senate voted forty-five to fifty-five on the perjury charge and fifty-fifty on obstruction of justice. Although acquitted, Clinton did become the first president to be found in contempt of court. Nevertheless, although he lost his law license, he remained a popular president and left office at the end of his second term with an approval rating of 66 percent, the highest of any U.S. president.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"fs-idp226756064\" data-depth=\"1\">\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\n<p>\t<iframe id=\"assessment_practice_361080f7-941c-4b11-82ef-c5344f2ce9c7\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/361080f7-941c-4b11-82ef-c5344f2ce9c7?iframe_resize_id=assessment_practice_id_361080f7-941c-4b11-82ef-c5344f2ce9c7\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;width:100%;height:100%;min-height:300px;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\n<h3>Watch it<\/h3>\n<p>Watch this video for a recap of the major political and economic events of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"The Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-rboN6F2g-k?start=1&#38;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can view the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/US+history+II\/TheClintonYearsorthe1990sCrashCourseUSHistory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript for \u201cThe Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45\u201d here (opens in new window)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\n<h3>Review Question<\/h3>\n<p>What were some of the foreign policy successes of the Clinton administration?<\/p>\n<div class=\"qa-wrapper\" style=\"display: block\"><span class=\"show-answer collapsed\" style=\"cursor: pointer\" data-target=\"q21972\">Show Answer<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"q21972\" class=\"hidden-answer\" style=\"display: none\">Clinton helped to arrange peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and between Israel and Jordan. During his administration, the United States participated in airstrikes that helped to end Serbian aggression in the region of Kosovo and the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3>Glossary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Oslo Accords:<\/strong>\u00a0a pair of agreements between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993 and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995. The Oslo Accords marked the start of a peace process aimed at achieving a peace treaty and resulted in the recognition by the PLO of the State of Israel and the recognition by Israel of the PLO. A major controversy of the\u00a0Oslo Accords was the failure to create a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impeachment:<\/strong>\u00a0the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. Article One of the United States Constitution provides that the House of Representatives has the &#8220;sole Power of Impeachment&#8221; and the Senate has &#8220;the sole Power to try all Impeachments.&#8221; Article Two provides that &#8220;The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. In the United States, impeachment is the first of two stages; an official may be impeached by a majority vote of the House, but conviction and removal from office in the Senate requires &#8220;the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green Party:\u00a0<\/strong>a political party founded in 1984 that advocates environmentalism and grassroots democracy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1919\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>US History. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/openstaxcollege.org\/textbooks\/us-history\">http:\/\/openstaxcollege.org\/textbooks\/us-history<\/a>. 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