Millennium and Trends
APUSH 10.5
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?
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After war, Bush had extremely high popularity rating, but economic recession in 1991
&2 caused 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
2000 Election
 “The Recount”
 Bush v. Gore
 Chads, Butterfly
ballots
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?
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Bush tax cuts – “trickle-down”/supply-side economics
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War on Terror
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Bailouts/recessions
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Growth of government
 Future?
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Entitlements
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Medicare
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Social Security
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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
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=UUZYs757tACChkSvjS1m66Q&index=31 – Review video
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfhTPaqKEAE – Decade video (7:00)