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Cover Slide. The Two George Bushes 1989-93. #41. George H.W. Bush (1989-93). Yale graduate son of a senator from Connecticut WWII veteran amassed a modest fortune in Texas oil business briefly served as Congressman from Texas emissary to China ambassador to the United Nations

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  1. Cover Slide The Two George Bushes 1989-93

  2. #41. George H.W. Bush (1989-93) • Yale graduate • son of a senator from Connecticut • WWII veteran • amassed a modest fortune in Texas oil business • briefly served as Congressman from Texas • emissary to China • ambassador to the United Nations • director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  3. Globalization of American Culture: McDonald's McDonald's restaurants circled the globe by the early twenty-first century, exemplifying the globalization of American culture. This Ukrainian woman in Kiev seems to enjoy both her hamburger and a conversation with the human symbol of the fast-food chain, Ronald McDonald. (Wide World Photos, Inc.) Season of Democracy in the Communist World • prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing, China result in a massacre (June 4, 1989) • Solidarity movement in Poland topples the communist government (August 1989) • communist regimes collapse in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Romania • Berlin Wall falls (November 9, 1989) • Germany is reunified (October 1990)

  4. peaceful collapse of USSR stuns critics communism is all but extinct ethnic warfare breaks out in former Soviet empire Chechnya (1991) Yugoslavia (1992) German reunification (1990) US military reorganization Nelson Mandela elected freed from prison after 27 years (1990) peace to El Salvador (1992) A New World Order Fall of the Berlin Wall, November, 1989 As East German border guards watch passively, a West Berliner pounds away at the hated symbol of a divided city. ((c) Bettmann/Corbis)

  5. Persian Gulf oil fields In the Persian Gulf War of early 1991, Operation Desert Storm forced Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. Much of that nation's oil industry was destroyed by bombs and the retreating Iraqis, who torched oil facilities as they left. Oil wells burned for months, darkening the sky over these American forces and causing environmental damage. (Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos, Inc.) Persian Gulf Crisis • Saddam Hussein overruns Kuwait (August 2, 1990) • U.N. Security council condemns invasion and orders withdrawal (August 3, 1990) • Operation Desert Shield leads international effort to Arabian Peninsula • U.S. Congress authorizes use of force (January 12, 1991) • Operation Desert Storm begins with air attack (January 16, 1991) • land war begins (February 23, 1991) • Saddam accepts a cease-fire and Kuwait is liberated (February 27, 1991)

  6. pledges to make a “kindler, gentler America Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) major water projects bill (1992) Dept. of Education challenges scholarships for minorities threatened to veto legislation making it easier to sue for discrimination in hiring Clarence Thomas nomination (1991) economy stalled with 7% unemployment and budget deficits broke “no new taxes” pledge Bush on the Home Front Exxon Valdez disaster and oil spill Fisherman John Thomas rescues an oil-soaked cormorant after the massive oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound in March of 1989. ((c) Bettmann/Corbis)

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