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PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
Aim: How did the presidency of the first George Bush impact the
United States?
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Election of 1988• Promised to carry out on Reagan’s programs. • “No New Taxes” • Attacked opponent Michael Dukakis as soft on Crime
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Difference Between Reagan and Bush Presidency
Reagan
• Reagan had much stronger mandate
Bush
• Democrats controlled the House and Senate
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End of the Cold War • Gorbachev was Soviet Leader • Encouraged satellite nations to
support perestroika and glasnost• Popular support in Eastern Europe
for better living conditions and economy
• Increased calls for free trade and free enterprise
• Berlin Wall comes down in 1989• Germany reunited in 1990• Soviet Union collapses around the
same time and renamed Russia• Boris Yeltsin elected President
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Persian Gulf Crisis• August 1990: Saddam Hussein
invades Kuwait to gain control of oil there
• US gives deadline of January 15, 1991 to withdraw
• Operation Desert Storm (air assaults) begins on January 16
• Ground war lasts 5 days in February • Entire conflict lasts 42 days• Ends with liberation of Kuwait
• Would be continued by Bush’s son more than 10 years later
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US Involvement • US troops weren’t sent onto Iraq to take down Saddam
Hussein• Thought regime was weak and would be overthrown by
opponents within Iraq • Saddam not taken down until current conflict in Iraq,
2003
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Panama 1989• Continuation of Reagan’s
War on Drugs• Manuel Noriega (dictator of
Panama) captured and brought to US on drug charges
• Currently in federal prison• 81 years old 2015
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Bush’s Approach to the Recession 1990’s
• Slowly spent more on social programs • Launched a deficit reduction plan that included new taxes
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Domestic Policy • Budget deficit
• Cut some military spending • Slight increase in taxes • Never made significant impact on deficit
• Supreme Court appointment• David Souter and Clarence Thomas
• Both conservatives
• Civil Rights • Rodney King (LA) police brutality (violently
arrested) causes race riots• 70 killed • Bush fails to take strong stand in favor of King
• Savings and Loan Scandal 1990 • Misuse of funds by savings and loans
institutions surfaced• American taxpayers would pay hundreds of
billions of dollars to bail out the savings and loan industry
David Souter
Clarence Thomas