1990s

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s

Years: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

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Significant events and trends during the 1990s:

• explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology

• development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions

• cloning (of Dolly, the sheep) achieved

• break up of the Soviet Union in 1992 -- the end of the Cold War, United States as sole world 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 (commonly known as Y2K)

• Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia

• North Yemen and South Yemen merge as Yemen