1990s

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s - 2010s? - 2020s? - 2030s?

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Significant events/trends during the 1990s:

• explosive growth of the internet; decrease in the cost of computers
• development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions
• cloning (Dolly, the sheep) achieved
• break-up of the Soviet Union in 1992 -- the end of the Cold War, United States as sole superpower?
• Human Genome Project begun
• global human? impact on the environment? widely accepted
• [Balkan war]? in former Yugoslavia
• Gulf War and embargo
• after 1992, booming [stock market]?.
• impeachment? of Bill Clinton
• Year 2000 problem
• Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
• North Yemen and South Yemen (re-?)merge as Yemen