objective to determine the extent to which george h. w. bush carried on the “reagan revolution”
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Objective
• To determine the extent to which George H. W. Bush carried on the “Reagan Revolution”.
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The Presidency of George H.W. Bush
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I. Election of 1988
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I. Election of 1988
• Election of 1988
– Low voter turnout (50.1 percent)
– Most attribute low turnout to negativity of the campaign.
– Bush won with the promise of no new taxes.
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II. Domestic Policy
• “Betrayal of the Reagan Revolution”?– By 1990, the US had entered another
recession– Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990
• Raised Taxes (oops)
– Savings and Loans industry collapsed. The President reached a compromise with Congress that ended up costing taxpayers more than $100 billion.
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II. Domestic Policy
• “Betrayal of the Reagan Revolution”?– The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
• made it illegal for employers to discriminate against the disabled, guaranteed the disabled adequate access to places of business and public venues, expanded access to transportation
– Clean Air Act (1990)• Exxon-Valdez • reducing urban smog, curbing acid rain, and
eliminating industrial emissions of toxic chemicals
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III. Foreign Policy
• A Changing World
– Glasnost and perestroika awakened a spirit of nationalism in the subject nations of Eastern Europe.
– Gorbachev knew the USSR could not support the ailing Eastern European economies.
– He ordered a large troop pullback from the region and warned leaders to adopt reforms.
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III. Foreign Policy
The Fall of the Wall
• To calm rising protests in East Germany, the government opened the gates of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
– Thousands of East Berliners poured into West Berlin.
– Spontaneous destruction of the wall
• Less than a year later, East Germany and West Germany were reunified as one country.
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III. Foreign Policy
The Soviet Union Crumbles– Beginning in 1990, Soviet republics started
declaring their independence.– Boris Yeltsin, the leader of the Russian
Republic, helped foil a hard-liners’ coup against Gorbachev in 1991.
– Gorbachev resigned as president and the Soviet Union dissolved.
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III. Foreign Policy
• Panama– US invasion of Panama to remove the dictator
Colonel Manuel Noriega on drug charges (Operation Just Cause).
– Largely successful, but led some to believe that American interventionism in Latin America would continue after the Cold War
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III. Foreign Policy
• China and Tiananmen Square (1989)
– Chinese students called on their Communist leaders to embrace reforms.
– Led huge pro-democracy demonstrations that filled Tiananmen Square.
– Tanks surrounded the protesters and opened fire. Hundreds(?) were killed.
– Bush announced an arms embargo… whoopee!
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III. Foreign Policy
The Persian Gulf War (August, 1990- Feb 1991)– Iraq’s Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.
– The UN imposed sanctions but the deadline passed.
– US commenced Operation Desert Storm in Jan. of 1991
– Made Bush incredibly popular (for a while)
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IV. Election of 1992