Modern US History The Bush Oreo Cookie Vocab

Modern US History The Bush Oreo Cookie

Vocab List -Perjury -Ethnic Cleansing P 488 -Refugee -Amnesty P 492 -Telecommute -Euro -Global Warming

I. George HW Bush • • • Under Ronald Reagan (Last time) the Cold War starts to end and begin enormous economic inequality 1998 George Bush Sr - voted because he promised he would not raise taxes. o By 1991 the USSR officially ends, we tear down the Berlin Wall, and all the Eastern European countries declare independence (Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria etc) o The USSR collapses because they could not keep up with our military spending For 50 years (1946 - 1991) US Foreign policy was shaped by “Russia evil and USA good” o Now things get way more complicated… (Yugoslavia collapses, Somalian Civil War = Black Hawk Down… crazy)

II. Persian Gulf War • • In 1991 Iraq President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, breaking international law for very complicated reasons (Debt forgiveness… oil production quotas. . ) o Bush leads coalition of 34 other countries into Iraq, defeating Saddam in 3 days § 9, 500 Iraqi’s killed § Only 300 Coalition soldiers killed Notable because of there was no “Vietnam Syndrome” = getting caught in a war for 10+ years o This will not be the same when Bush Jr fights in Iraq 20 years later. . .

Persian Gulf War

III. Rodney King Riots • • • Rodney King - black man beaten by cops in Los Angeles California on camera -- yet all white Jury did not convict cops Riots ensue: o 52 people killed; 2, 300 Injured o $Billions in property damage o Bush did not know how to comfort the masses. Seen as a rich white out of touch person. Pair this with economy tanking o 4. 5 million americans lose jobs at end of cold war o unemployment grows o Bush authorized a tax increase… but he promised no tax increase!

Los Angeles Riots

IV. Clinton Years Bill Clinton! 1993 - 2001! Notable moments: § Economy booms! Unemployment drops! § Internet & Microchips! Woo! Video Games! DVDs! Cell Phones!!! § Stop ethnic cleansing of bosnian muslims in Yugoslavia o : ( § Don’t stop 800, 000 killed in a month in Rwandan Civil War… § World Trade Center bombed first time… § Oklahoma City Bombing by Timothy Mc. Veigh killed 170… § We outsource all of our workforce to cheaper countries § AIDS epidemic kills 400, 000 in USA by 2000 § Imprisonment rates explode, by 2008 we have 2. 3 million in jail Monica Lewinsky gets Clinton impeached because of a lie •

Oklahoma City bombing

AIDS

. com boom and bust

Rwanda : (

V. Bush JR

Katrina

War

Torture

If time - Bosnian Civil War

If time - Roof is on fire : (