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1988-Present

1988-Present. The Age of Globalization. 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 Barack Obama Joe Biden. Election of 1988. Willie Horton Ad. George Bush I. BUSH I – Economy.

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1988-Present

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  1. 1988-Present The Age of Globalization

  2. 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 • Barack Obama • Joe Biden

  3. Election of 1988

  4. Willie Horton Ad

  5. George Bush I

  6. 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)

  7. Civil Rights Flag burning 1989 Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 Rodney King Race Riots 1992

  8. 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

  9. Desert Storm

  10. Actually, more like…

  11. Persian Gulf War • Saddam Hussein’s 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

  12. 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”

  13. Bill Clinton

  14. 1992 Election • Clinton v Bush v Ross Perot • Perot – Billionaire oil man ran strong independent campaign • Fiscal discipline • Bad economy, Perot siphoning conservatives and Clinton’s charisma sinks Bush

  15. “Boxers or brief?” “I did not inhale…”

  16. Clinton Domestic Issues Don’t Ask Don’t Tell ‘93 Family Medical Leave Act ‘93 Brady Bill ‘93 Welfare to Work

  17. Clinton Domestic Issues • Health-care reform – proposes universal health coverage – advocated by Hillary – rejected in Congress

  18. Contract With America 1994 Congressional elections – Newt Gingrich: Contract w/America Conservative talk shows, NRA Republicans win majority – leads to “Gov’t Shutdown” in 1995 Reelected in ’96 Clinton takes Republican issues of welfare reform and balanced budget

  19. Foreign Issues • NAFTA 1994 – North American Free Trade Agreement lowered tariffs between U.S., Canada and Mexico

  20. Foreign Issues • 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

  21. Oslo AccordsArafat & PeresCreates PNA

  22. WACO‘93

  23. TerrorismOklahoma City1995

  24. Timothy McVeigh

  25. Columbine 1999

  26. Terrorism USS COLE 2000 9

  27. Scandals Jennifer Flowers/Paula Jones White Water Monicagate

  28. Impeachment • Clinton has affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky

  29. Impeachment (1998) • Clinton lied under oath about affair (Perjury) • Special Prosecutor appointed to investigate • Charged with perjury and obstruction of justice • Acquitted by Senate

  30. 2000 Election • Al Gore (Dem) v GW Bush (Rep)

  31. The 2000 Election • Most bitterly contested election in 100 years • Gore/Lieberman • Moderate populism • Shadow of Clinton • Bush/Cheney • “Compassionate Conservative” • Roughly ½ of eligible voters went to polls • Voting irregularities • Florida

  32. 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

  33. Democrats angered by outcome

  34. 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

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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. Invasion of Iraq 2003 • Bush administration tied 9/11 attacks, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to Iraq and Saddam Hussein • No ties, no links • Global terrorist threat and “Axis of Evil” • Remake the Middle East into pro-Western democracies favorable to the US • “Mission Accomplished” • War dragged on…Where’s Bin Laden? • Several trillion dollars

  39. Foreign Issues • Invasion of Iraq (2003) – to find WMD…I mean remove Saddam…I mean establish democracy…well, we’re there we need to finish the job • Saddam is deposed, civil war and violence has ensued • Al-Qaida LATER had presence in Iraq

  40. Reelected in 2004 • Defeats John Kerry in narrow victory

  41. Katrina

  42. Barack Obama

  43. Obama and Economy • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 • (Stimulus Package)

  44. Obama • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 • (Stimulus Package) • Health Care Reform Affordable Care Act 2010 (“Obamacare”) • Affordable Care Act Cases 2012 “Congressional Taxation Power”

  45. Tea Party Movement 2009-10

  46. Occupy Wall Street Sept 2011

  47. DADT Repealed 2010

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