1990-Present

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1990-Present

• The Age of Globalization

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Presidents

• George H. W. Bush (Rep)1989-1993
• Dan Quayle
• Bill Clinton (Dem) 1993-2001
• Al Gore
• George W. Bush (Rep) 2001-2009
• Dick Cheney
• O-bama, O-bama
• Joe Biden

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Election of 1988

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Willie Horton Ad
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George Bush I
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BUSH I Economy

• No New Taxes?
• Raised taxes to pay down debt
• By 1992 U.S. was in recession
• Savings and Loan Scandal
• Taxpayer Bailouts
• (Remember-Reagan Deregulation)

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Civil Rights

• Flag burning 1989
• Americans with Disabilities Act 1990
• Rodney King Race Riots 1992

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Supreme Court Appointments

• Clarence Thomas David Souter
• Creates Conservative Majority?

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Clarence Thomas?

• Conservative African American
• Sexual Misconduct?
• Anita Hill
• High-tech lynching
• New Coca-Cola recipe?

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Events Abroad

• Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
• Soviet Union Breakup (1992)
• Invasion of Panama (1992) troops sent to
  capture dictator and drug lord Manuel Noriega

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Desert Storm

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Actually, more like

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Persian Gulf War

• Saddam Husseins Iraq invades Kuwait
• Bush sends troops to Saudi Arabia with UN
  authorization (Desert Shield) 1990
• ½ million Americans and Allied Coalition bomb
  Iraq and send ground troops into Kuwait (Desert
  Storm) January 1991
• Cease-fire ordered in February but Saddam
  remained in power

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Aftermath of Persian Gulf War

• Harsh UN Sanctions imposed
• No Fly Zone established
• Shiite (south) rebellion and later Kurdish
  (north)rebellion crushed by Iraqi Army
• Gulf War Syndrome

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Bill Clinton
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1992 Election

• Clinton v Bush v Ross Perot
• Perot Billionaire oil man ran strong
  independent campaign
• Fiscal discipline
• Bad economy, Perot siphoning conservatives and
  Clintons charisma sinks Bush

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Clinton Domestic Issues

• Dont Ask Dont Tell
• Family Leave Act
• Brady Bill
• Welfare to Work

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Clinton Domestic Issues

• Health-care reform proposes universal health
  coverage advocated by Hillary rejected in
  Congress

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Contract With America

• 1994 Congressional elections
• Newt Gingrich Contract w/America
• Conservative talk shows, NRA
• Republicans win majority leads to Govt
  Shutdown in 1995
• Reelected in 96
• Takes Republican issues of welfare reform and
  balanced budget

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Foreign Issues

• NAFTA 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement
  lowered tariffs between U.S., Canada and Mexico
• Election of Mandela
• Somolia- Black Hawk Down
• Ethnic Cleansing in former Yugoslavia
• Bosnia Muslims, Serbs, Croats 1995 Kosovo
  Serbian troops massacre ethnic Albanians
• NATO bombing forces Serbians to withdraw from
  Kosovo

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Foreign Issues

• Northern Ireland
• Mideast recognition of Israel by Jordan
• Return of home rule to Palestine?

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WACO
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Terrorism
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Timothy McVeigh
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Columbine 1999
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Terrorism
USS COLE 2000
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(No Transcript)
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Scandals

• Jennifer Flowers
• White Water
• Monicagate

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Impeachment

• Clinton has affair with White House intern Monica
  Lewinsky

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Impeachment (1998)

• Clinton lied under oath about affair (Perjury)
• Special Prosecutor appointed to investigate
• Charged with perjury and obstruction of justice
• Acquitted by Congress

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2000 Election

• Al Gore (Dem) v GW Bush (Rep)

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2000 Election

• One of the closest in history
• Came down to Florida
• Recount of ballots ordered
• Supreme Court ruled to end recount
• Bush lost popular vote but won the election

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Democrats angered by outcome
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Domestic Issues

• Tax cuts
• Tax cuts
• Tax cuts
• No Child Left Behind increased student and
  teacher accountability but did not provided
  funding for mandates
• Attempted to privatize Social Security

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Foreign Issues

• September 11, 2001- U.S. attacked by
  multinational terrorist group Al-Qaida

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Got Liberties?

• PATRIOT ACT
• Bush Administration critics have accused Bush of
  violating Americans Constitutional rights
  tapping phones and computers
• Bush argues that warrantless wiretapping is
  necessary to protect against terrorism and is
  within his executive authority

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Foreign Issues

• Creation of Department of Homeland Security
• Bush orders invasion of Afghanistan shortly after
  to pursue Al-Qaida and Osama Bin-Laden
• Bush announces War on Terror
• Bush Doctrine preemptive war right to
  attack anyone who might possibly be thinking
  about maybe sometime in the future if they can
  possibly think about attacking us

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Foreign Issues

• Invasion of Iraq (2003) to find WMDI mean
  remove SaddamI mean establish democracywell,
  were there we need to finish the job
• Saddam is deposed, civil war and violence has
  ensued
• Al-Qaida NOW has presence in Iraq

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Reelected in 2004

• Defeats John Kerry in narrow victory

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Katrina
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Barrack Obama
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Obama

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009
• (Stimulus Package)
• Health Care Reform
• Obamacare
• Tea Party
• Bin Laden

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Major Issues In Modern World

• Technology increased pace of change
• Scarcity of Energy Resources War? Recession?
  Global Warming? Alternative Sources?
• Internet Access to more info than ever the
  great democratizer? - invasions of privacy?
  Threat to traditional learning?

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Major Issues In Modern World

• Terrorism by organizations or nations
• Growth of multinational corporations too much
  wealth and influence? Has led to outsourcing but
  increased global trade
• Longer life spans how to support aging
  population