Millennium and Trends. Bush 41 Panama Invasion 1989 – overthrew Manuel Noriega under the indictment of drug trafficking 1 st Gulf War Iraq invaded.

Millennium and Trends

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?

After war, Bush had extremely high popularity rating, but economic recession in 1991 & 92 caused rating 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

“The Recount” Bush v. Gore Chads, Butterfly

ballots

2000 Election

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? Bush tax cuts – “trickle-down”/supply-side economics

War on Terror

Bailouts/recessions

Growth of government

Future? Entitlements

Medicare

Social Security

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, Common Core

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=UUZYs757tACChkS-vjS1m66Q&index=31 – Review video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfhTPaqKEAE – Decade video (7:00)