Unit 9: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1980-present
Chapter 31: Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989-present
Guiding Questions and Identifications
1. How has globalization changed the way countries interact and changed the role of the U.S. in the
world? Consider the economic, trade, and the foreign policy implications.
2. In what ways has the United States’s role in the world changed since the end of the Cold War? In
what ways has it remained the same?
3. How did immigration to the U.S. in the last two decades of the 20th century and the first decade of
the 21st century benefit the American economy buy produce political backlash?
4. What are the issues involved in the culture wars? What roles are played by each of the three
branches of government: Congress, the Supreme Court, and various presidential administrations?
Identifications:
31.1 American in the Global Economy
Al Qaeda
globalization
WTO
G8 (Group of 8)
NAFTA
multinational corporations
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
World Wide Web (which is faster to say than its acronym www)
31.2 Politics and Partisanship in a New Era
culture war
Immigration and Nationality Act
multiculturalism
Proposition 209
Operation Rescue
Defense of Marriage Act
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
Lawrence v. Texas
William J. Clinton
Contract with America
Newt Gingrich
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
Osama bin Laden
31.3 Into a New Century
George W. Bush
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act
Saddam Hussein
USA PATRIOT Act
Abu Ghraib prison
Barack Obama
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Tea Party
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act