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1 While you wait The Impeachment Process After watching the video clip, send me a K-mail answering the following question. You will hear back from me regarding your answers a little later Define impeachment and briefly explain the process.

as Yasser Arafat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister

2 President Bush greeting Gulf War soldiers. President Clinton and King Hussein of Jordan look on as Yasser Arafat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands. Unit 12, Lesson 7 Two More Presidents

3 Which U.S. President was a World War II Navy pilot and a genuine war hero? Which President of the United States played the saxophone and at one time had considered a career as a musician? This same president was a Rhodes Scholar, a Yale graduate, and a former governor. Today you ll learn more about our 41st and 42nd U.S. Presidents. Where we re headed

4 Identify U.S. Presidents who served between the years 1974 and 2012 (Lessons 4-7). Identify major events that occurred during President Bush s administration. Recognize what is meant by the end of the Cold War. Identify the causes and results of the Gulf War. Describe with examples Bill Clinton s achievements and failures. Explain the purpose and process of impeachment. Objectives for this lesson:

George H.W. Bush Mini Biography http://www.biography.

5 George H.W. Bush Mini Biography

6 The title of Chapter 60 is The End of the Cold War. What do you think is the meaning of this phrase?

7 In, the Soviet Union broke into pieces. Yes, the Soviet Union, the the land we called Russia a nation composed of many states fell apart. The Soviet Union s power didn t collapse. Communism did. As a system, communism had failed. It had begun with high hopes as a visionary experiment. The experiment hadn t worked. It had turned Russia into an unfree,, clumsy nation. Karl economic ideas hadn t worked, either. Government ownership of land and products didn t bring efficiency and productivity. Finally, the burden of ever-growing needs helped wreck Russia s economy. (Trying to keep up with the Reagan-era military might have helped do it.) Page 270

When the Russian people had had enough, they just threw communism out. It was stunning; it was peaceful; it meant that everything had changed in the world s politics. The War was over.

8 When the Russian people had had enough, they just threw communism out. It was stunning; it was peaceful; it meant that everything had changed in the world s politics. The War was over. It was hard to believe. Now that Russia was a nation, there was no giant to battle. At first we didn t seem to know what to do. Page 270 In 1989, the Soviet Union fell apart a momentous event symbolized by the removal of this statue of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of Russian communism.

9 But it was becoming clear to most people that we are all passengers on the same global spaceship. The European nations had joined together to form a Common Market called the Union. They began acting economically as if they were one giant nation. Japan was a major economic power. like South Korea, China, India, and Indonesia were making big moves in business. The world s economies were all becoming linked, as nations that had once been communist began to change to market economies economies with little government control. Page 271

When thousands of Chinese students demonstrated and raised a statue of the Goddess of Democracy in Tiananmen Square in the capital of China, the

Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks the morning after the Chinese

The man achieved widespread international recognition due to the videotape and photographs taken of the incident.

10 When thousands of Chinese students demonstrated and raised a statue of the Goddess of Democracy in Tiananmen Square in the capital of China, the government broke up the demonstrations and killed many of the rebels. Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks the morning after the Chinese military forcibly removed protesters from in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 5, The man achieved widespread international recognition due to the videotape and photographs taken of the incident. Page 271 People all over the world wanted. When students in China rebelled against their corrupt government, they paraded around with a statue of the Goddess of Democracy modeled after our Statue of. The Chinese government sent troops, who opened fire on civilians in Beijing s Square. Many students were killed.

11 What was happening? Page 271 The fall of communism was giving oppressed peoples everywhere an of possibilities. It gave us a new of our freedoms. Ronald Reagan championed those freedoms worldwide, but it was the president, Republican George Bush, who was able to take us in a direction.

12 Bush was a practical fellow with a low-key manner and an ability to tackle details. The son of a Connecticut senator, Bush was the youngest pilot in the navy during World War and a genuine war hero. After the war, he moved west to Texas and became an oilman. But it was government that fascinated him, and he served in a series of important jobs right up to the vice presidency under Ronald Reagan. In, he became president himself. Page 271

13 He promised. But all those years of war preparation had been hard on us as well as on Russia. Bush became president at a time when were in decay, were behind those of many other nations, was epidemic, and the huge national was making many Americans fearful of the future. So President Bush worked out an agreement with which was controlled by a Democratic Party majority to raise. It may have helped restrain the debt and thus take a step toward that was coming; it didn t help George Bush with the American people. But his foreign policy did win approval. Page

14 As president, George Bush promised not to raise taxes. Then why did he make an agreement with Congress to raise taxes? Page 271

15 Saddam Hussain A U.S. F-117A, known as the stealth fighter. When Saddam, dictator of Iraq, sent troops into neighboring and took over that nation, Bush led a forceful response. The United States, with the United Nations, stopped Hussein s aggression in the powerful, short Gulf War. U.S. Marines advance during the ground war in Operation Desert Storm. Page 272

16 Page 272 President Bush led a response (from August 1990 to February 1991) that would be known as the First Gulf War, or Operation Storm. Working with the United Nations, the president put together a coalition of nations that quickly drove out of Kuwait. Air strikes on well-defined targets were coordinated with an effective ground force that raced through Kuwait and into southern Iraq.

Page 272-273 President Bush and his military advisers achieved their goal: an Kuwait. But they resisted pressure to capture and remove Saddam Hussein for two reasons.

17 Page President Bush and his military advisers achieved their goal: an Kuwait. But they resisted pressure to capture and remove Saddam Hussein for two reasons., they thought, was an even more dangerous threat than Iraq and a strong Iraq was necessary to contain Iran. And the second reason for holding back? They understood that occupation of a defeated would be costly and dangerous. Some criticized President Bush for that decision, because it left Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq.

18 What were the causes and results of the Gulf War? (Pages )

19 The next time President Bush called out American forces, it was to help starving people in. That nation, which elbows out into the Indian Ocean from the east coast of Africa, was in a state of crisis. Crops failed. Armed thugs were terrorizing and killing. There was no effective. Our marines brought food and some help. We worked with the. Our aim was to make a whole-world venture. Page 273

20 Why did Bush send American forces into Somalia? (Page 273)

But good intentions don t always matter.

some of them claiming the same land Serbs and Croats and Muslims began killing each other, partly because

That horrendous war, with ethnic cleansing or mass killings, finally ended with an agreement negotiated in

A Serbian woman grieves in a makeshift cemetery during the ethnic and religious civil war in the former

21 But good intentions don t always matter. In the former Eastern European nation of Yugoslavia which had been split into several different nations, some of them claiming the same land Serbs and Croats and Muslims began killing each other, partly because their were different. That horrendous war, with ethnic cleansing or mass killings, finally ended with an agreement negotiated in Dayton, Ohio, in A Serbian woman grieves in a makeshift cemetery during the ethnic and religious civil war in the former Yugoslavia. In the face of such calamities, we started asking ourselves some hard questions: does the United States have a to try to solve the problems of other nations? Is it done best with armies or with negotiators? Or should we concentrate on creating a just society at home and hope that the rest of the world will take notice? Page 273

William Jefferson Clinton Mini Biography Page 274 http://www.

22 William Jefferson Clinton Mini Biography Page 274

23 That a small-town boy from one of the poorest of states could make it to the nation s top job is what America is all about. William Jefferson Clinton, from Hope, Arkansas, became our president and, at the age of 46, the third-youngest in American history. He was the first president in 12 years. Few men have arrived at the presidency with a background to match Clinton s. A graduate of Georgetown University s School of Foreign Service, he had been a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in England, received a law degree from Yale University, and for 12 years served as of Arkansas. Everywhere he left an impression of vigor, compassion, and astonishing ability along with troublesome stories of about-faces under pressure from wealthy interests and other less-thanprincipled actions. Page 274

24 Bill Clinton, seen here with his wife, Hillary, proved to be a brilliant campaigner who could connect with people of all backgrounds. The woman who would become Clinton s wife, Hillary Rodham, also awed people with her intellect and ability. As a lawyer, she held a series of jobs where her intensity and intelligence made her stand out. She served on the legal staff that investigated. She devoted much of her career to issues of health and child care. With Bill Clinton, she became half of an incredible political partnership. Page 274

25 What kind of president was Bill Clinton? For a Democratic president, he pursued many goals most often associated with. He cut, put more on the streets, built, stepped up the war on, expanded the penalty, and, after passage of a deficit reduction bill (without any Republican votes), the budget. For the first time in years, instead of a budget deficit, the country had a! All that helped bring about a stock-market surge, low unemployment, minimal inflation, and general. But Clinton was unable to get insurance for all Americans, or change the way we paid for political campaigns, or do much for schools. The gap between the rich and the middle class grew. Page

In affairs, the Clinton administration brought warring parties from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia to Dayton, Ohio, where they sat down and agreed to stop killing each other.

In the Middle East, Clinton helped negotiate agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

26 In affairs, the Clinton administration brought warring parties from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia to Dayton, Ohio, where they sat down and agreed to stop killing each other. Former president Jimmy Carter was sent to Haiti and helped that impoverished island get its first fairly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, into office. In the Middle East, Clinton helped negotiate agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. In Ireland, where Protestants and Catholics had been fighting for centuries, the administration again acted as a mediator in the effort to achieve a historic peace agreement. Trade treaties lowering tariffs and bolstering international free trade were negotiated by the administration and ratified by Congress. And Clinton made a historic trip to China, where he charmed the Chinese with his willingness to answer hard questions. President Clinton arrives in Bosnia to spend Christmas with American troops stationed there. President Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat together for a historic handshake after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord at the White House in Not since the Camp David accords of 1978 had people felt such hope for peace in the Middle East Page 275

27 Despite his gifts of unusual intelligence and charm, Bill Clinton threw away the chance to be a president. Clinton s presidency, begun with so much promise, turned into a personal and national disaster. Even before he took office, Bill Clinton was accused of all kinds of wrongdoing. A special prosecutor was appointed to investigate questions about a real-estate investment (called ) in Arkansas that Clinton had made while he was that state s governor. The special prosecutor who ignored long-cherished legal traditions (such as the privacy of lawyer-and-client confidences) found no evidence of connected with Whitewater, but he did find Clinton s flaw. Page 276

28 Bill Clinton was president when television and films were bombarding us with images that had once been seen only in private. In the past we hadn t known much about the lives of politicians, but by Clinton s time the media were spreading opinions and information (and misinformation) everywhere and quickly. In the case of President William Jefferson Clinton, we learned details of his private life that no one wanted to know. The special prosecutor and the press went far beyond the bounds of legal necessity in describing the president s relations with a woman who worked in the White House. When faced with disturbing accusations about his personal life, Clinton was not. He to the American public and he lied to members of his administration. He wounded himself, his family, and the nation. Page 276 A humbled President Clinton vows to complete his term after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him. He was later acquitted of the impeachment charges by the Senate.

29 In December 1998, Bill Clinton was in the House of Representatives. Why? He was charged with sexual misconduct. However, in the Senate trial that followed, the president was found not to have committed. His private behavior was not deemed a constitutional offense (no matter how inappropriate). It was an example of constitutional at work. Page 276 A humbled President Clinton vows to complete his term after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him. He was later acquitted of the impeachment charges by the Senate.

30 Give some examples of goals that President Bill Clinton achieved during his presidency, goals that he was unable to achieve, and failures of his presidency. (Page 274)

31 Article II, Section 4 Step 1 is Grounds for Impeachment Phase. Step 2 is Phase 1. Steps 3 & 4 are part of Phase 2. Step 5 is the Penalty Phase.

32 Explain the purpose and process of impeachment. Bill Clinton was impeached, but he was not removed from the office of president. Why? (Page 276)

33 The impeachment process:

34 Research online Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Clinton. Collect information from The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier s online encyclopedia, and from other websites (A good source would be the presidential libraries). Complete Time Line sheet for each president. Be sure to include the following information: Personal Characteristics/Background Major Contributions Major Failures Domestic Policies/Activities Foreign Policies/Activities When finished, compare your answers with the ones in the Lesson Answer Key. B. Research

Homework Review pages 270-276 and answer questions 1-6 in your Student Guide pages. B. Research Co

35 Homework Review pages and answer questions 1-6 in your Student Guide pages. B. Research Complete the Presidential Time Line sheets for Presidents Bush and Clinton by doing research online. C. Use What You Know Complete the Presidential Clues sheet to see how much you remember about the presidents who served between 1974 and Check your answers with those in the Lesson Answer Key. Complete Unit 12, Lesson 7 Assessment. Tomorrow you will use maps to locate areas of major U.S. military involvement, and that have experienced major political changes since 1975.

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