Essential Question:

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• Essential Question
• To what extent did the Clinton Bush years
  deviate from the Reagan era?
• Chapter 31 pg 1141-1171

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The Presidency of Bill Clinton
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Bill Clinton A New Democrat

• Bill Clinton represented a new group of Democrats
  who hoped to reclaim lost Reagan Democrats
• His agenda as president included
• To reduce the size of the govt
• To balance the federal budget
• To reform welfare extend healthcare to all
  Americans
• To promote economic growth

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Domestic Policy under Clinton
A return to Reagan-style tax cuts, increased
military spending, limited role of govt

• Clinton attempted a bold plan to offer universal
  health coverage
• The bills defeat allowed for sweeping victories
  in the 1994 midterms for Republicans
• Repubs, led by Newt Gingrich, offered a Contract
  with America
• Clinton undercut their agenda by reducing the
  size of the govt planning for a balanced budget

The era of big govt is over Clinton
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Foreign Policy under Clinton

• Clinton encouraged free trade
• Clinton signed the North Atlantic Free Trade
  Agreement (NAFTA) (initiated under Bush) which
  reduced trade barriers among USA, Mexico,
  Canada
• General Agreement on Tariffs Trade cut tariffs
  the World Trade Org helped settle trade
  disputes among 117 nations

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Foreign Policy under Clinton

• U.S. international peacekeeping
• From 1993-1995, U.S. troops were sent to Somalia
  to offer food restore order to civil war
• In 1999, the U.S. UN sent troops to Bosnia (in
  the former Yugoslavia) to stop Serbian ethnic
  cleansing

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Slobodan Milosevic
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Upheaval in the 1990s

• Clinton presided during an economic boom, but
  anxiety was prevalent throughout the decade
• Los Angeles race riots (1992)
• Terrorism at the World Trade Center (1993)
  Murrah Federal Center in Oklahoma City (1995)
• Clinton scandals Whitewater Monica Lewinsky

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The Presidency of George W. Bush
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George W. Bush
Results of the 2000 Election by Voting Precinct

• The election of 2000 was the closest since
  Nixon-Kennedy in 1960 the only dispute election
  since Tilden-Hayes in 1876
• Hanging or dimpled chads in Florida
• The Supreme Court ruled in Bush v Gore (2000) to
  stop the recount declare Bush the winner of the
  election

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Key Events in the Bush Presidency

• Key events in the Bush years
• Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by fundamentalist
  Al Qaeda led to the invasion of Afghanistan the
  hunt for Osama bin Laden
• Bushs declaration of an Axis of Evil in North
  Korea, Iran, Iraq
• The invasion of Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam
  Hussein

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Global Terrorist Strikes, 1998-2007