Bush 41 Panama Invasion 1989 – overthrew Manuel Noriega under the indictment of drug
trafficking
1st Gulf War Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait
Bush leads a coalition of nations
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
American led forces win quick victory
1st war televised by 24-hour news (CNN)
Highly popular in U.S.
What was the feeling in the middle east?
After war, Bush had extremely high popularity rating, but economic recession in 1991 & 92 caused rating to fall and he loses the 1992 election.
1990s Political 1989-1993 George H.W. Bush (41)
1993-2001 Bill Clinton
1992 Election Bush, Clinton, Ross Perot
Perot – 3rd Party (Reform Party) effect
1994 “Republican Revolution” Contract with America
Newt Gingrich
1996 Election Clinton, Bob Dole, Perot
Partisanship Reemerges
Slick Willy I Clinton began 1st term fighting for health-care reform
Congress abandoned plan, was part of the cause of the 1994 midterm Republican Revolution
NAFTA – North American Free Trade Agreement Negotiated by Bush (41) administration, but passed under Clinton
Removed trade barriers between 3 countries
Oklahoma City bombing 1995– internal terrorists bomb Federal building Killed 168 people
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols convicted
Slick Willy II Surplus
1998 – 2001, first budget surpluses in 30 years
Why? Clinton? Gingrich? Gramm-Rudman Act effects?
Dot-Com boom Economy takes off after 1991-2 Recession
Clinton – long period of economic growth while President
2nd Telfon President
Impeachment Whitewater investigation – Starr Report
Monica Lewinsky
How was this impeachment much like Johnsons?
Kosovo US-led NATO forces stop genocide and Civil War
Rise of Terrorism
Roots back to 1979 Iranian Revolution 1983 Beirut Marine bombings, 1988 Lockerbie American Airliner
1996 WTC attempt, 1998 American embassies, 2000 U.S.S. Cole
September 11th 2001 – World Trade Center Al Qaeda
Osama Bin Laden
2001 Patriot Act
Dept. of Homeland Security
“War on Terror” 2001 Afghanistan
2003 Iraq
What are the effects?
Growth of Science and Technology Continues from WWII
The Digital Revolution ARPANET
Development of the PC
Microsoft – MS-DOS
Apple – Macintosh
Internet
Medicine and Genetics Pharmaceutical Advances
Genome Project
Globalization of Industries U.S. shift from factory jobs to service-industry jobs
More Free-Trade agreements (like NAFTA)
“Outsourcing” of jobs
“Downsizing”
Multi-national corporations
Technology effect on productivity
Globalization protested World Bank
Environmentalism
Disparity in wealth among nations
“New World Order”
Demographic Changes Continuing of shift from Rust Belt to Sun Belt
Effect on Electoral College
Shift in populations 2010 census – 1/3 of counties “dying”
Gentrification of Baby Boomers “Graying of America”
Effect on Social Security?
Minority-Majority path Hispanics now largest group of minorities
Growth of Asian-Americans
Immigration issues
America’s role in the World Emerges out of the 1980s as the lone Superpower.
Led in multiple conflicts
View by others?
China, India, European Union
Debt After surplus in last years of Clinton’s Presidency, deficits every year since
2001.
Why? Bush tax cuts – “trickle-down”/supply-side economics
War on Terror
Bailouts/recessions
Growth of government
Future? Entitlements
Medicare
Social Security
Interest on debt
Federalism Question Repeating Theme in U.S. History – Power to States or to Federal Government
Past
Federalist and Dem-Republicans
Nullification
Secession
Jim Crow laws
Recent History
Nixon’s New Federalism
Contract with America 1994
Current / Future
Health Care debate – Obamacare
Same sex unions
Education – NCLB, Common Core
Legalization of marijuana
Reflection Questions In what ways were President Reagan and Clinton alike?
How did both Presidents Bushes go from an extremely high approval ratings to low approval ratings during their administrations?
What is the impact of the changing industrialization of the world upon the U.S.?
How will the U.S. of 2050 look different from that of today?
Links http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeRRf-kbxeE&list=UUZYs757tACChkS-vjS1m66Q&index=31 – Review video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfhTPaqKEAE – Decade video (7:00)