Transcript Warm-Up Question

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Essential Question:
◦ To what extent did the Clinton &
Bush (1 and 2) years deviate from the
Reagan era?
Warm-Up Question
◦ What is the difference between the
“New Left” & “New Right”?
1988-1992
1910s
1990s
 Post
Cold War
 Unclear foreign policy
 Who is the enemy now?
 Focused on domestic issues
 Gulf War
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Persian Gulf War of 1991
Iraq invaded Kuwait
Sent 200,000 troops to Saudi Arabia
(Desert Shield) warn Saddam Hussein
Increased troops to 430,000 and in
February 1991 invaded Iraq to free Kuwait
(Desert Storm)
Control of the media, “smart bombs”, and
Colin Powell’s “overwhelming force”
doctrine
The United States joined a coalition of 26 nations
to free Kuwait.
This was the build up phase of the war. It
took five months for the US and other
countries to move enough men and
material to the Middle East.
Saddam Hussein refused to withdraw from
Kuwait and on January 16, 1991, Operation
Desert Storm began.
The coalition bombed
Iraq for one month
before using ground
troops.
It only took 100
hours for the
US-led
coalition to free
the Kuwaiti
people and
push Iraq back
across its
boarders.
Question Time about my service during the
Persian Gulf War.
The picture on the
left is the
Blackhawk that I
flew on during the
war. It is sitting on
the deck of USNS
Comfort, a US
Naval hospital ship,
in the Persian Gulf.
Before Iraqi troops pulled out of Kuwait, they set oil
wells on fire sending pollution into the atmosphere.
Over 10 million barrels of oil were wasted.
Clinton Video
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Bill Clinton represented a new group of
Democrats who hoped to reclaim lost “Reagan
Democrats”
His agenda as president included:
◦ To reduce the size of the gov’t
◦ To balance the federal budget
◦ To reform welfare & extend healthcare to all
Americans
◦ To promote economic growth
A return to Reagan-style tax cuts, increased
military
spending,
&
limited
role
of
gov’t
 Clinton attempted a bold plan to offer
universal health coverage
◦ The bill’s defeat allowed for sweeping victories in
the 1994 midterms for Republicans
◦ Repubs, led by Newt Gingrich, offered a “Contract
with America”
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“Theundercut
era of big
is over”
Clinton
theirgov’t
agenda
by reducing the
size of the gov’t & planning
for a balanced
—Clinton
budget
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Clinton encouraged free trade:
◦ Clinton signed North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) (initiated under Bush)
which reduced trade barriers among USA,
Mexico, & Canada
◦ General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade cut
tariffs & the World Trade Org helped settle
trade disputes among 117 nations
 U.S.
international peacekeeping:
◦ From 1993-1995, U.S. troops
were sent to Somalia to offer
food & restore order to civil war
◦ In 1999, the U.S. & UN sent
troops to Bosnia (in the former
Yugoslavia) to stop Serbian
ethnic cleansing
Slobodan Milosevic
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Clinton presided during an economic boom,
but anxiety was prevalent throughout the
decade:
◦ Los Angeles race riots (1992)
◦ Terrorism at the World Trade Center (1993) &
Murrah Federal Center in Oklahoma City (1995)
◦ Clinton scandals: Whitewater & Monica Lewinsky
Bush Video
Results of the 2000 Election by Voting Precinct
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The election of 2000 was the closest
since Nixon-Kennedy in 1960 & the
only disputed election since TildenHayes in 1876:
◦ “Hanging” or “dimpled” chads in
Florida
◦ The Supreme Court ruled in Bush v
Gore (2000) to stop the recount &
declare Bush the winner of the
election
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Key events in the Bush years:
◦ Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by
fundamentalist Al Qaeda led to the
invasion of Afghanistan & the hunt
for Osama bin Laden
◦ Bush’s declaration of an “Axis of Evil”
in North Korea, Iran, & Iraq
◦ The invasion of Iraq in 2003 to
remove Saddam Hussein
Global Terrorist Strikes, 1998-2007
44th President of the United States
“Yes We Can” campaign
National Healthcare for all
Presidents such as Truman, Nixon and
Clinton had tried to create a national
healthcare plan. President Obama
signed the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act in March 2010.
Economic Crisis – Causes:
Toxic Investments; Falling
House Prices Effects: Bank Failures; Foreclosures; High
Consumer Debt; Low Business Investment; Rising Unemployment