America In A New Millennium

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1 CHAPTER 34 America In A New Millennium I. The United States and the wrld at century s end II. America s changing msaic A. Demgraphic shifts 1. Grwth f sunbelt and urban areas 2. Wmen and the wrkfrce 3. Decline f the traditinal family unit 4. Black Americans and pverty B. The new immigrants 1. Changes in America s ethnic mix 2. Origins f immigrants 3. Immigrants and American sciety III. Cultural cnservatism A. Mre idelgical and partisan B. Attacks n liberalism C. The religius right 1. Christian Calitin 2. Plitical effect IV. Bush t Clintn A. Decline in Bush s ppularity 1. Freign affairs 2. Ecnmic recessin 3. Brke n new taxes pledge 4. Pat Buchanan s challenge B. Demcrats present slid centrist image 1. Clintn s backgrund a. Early years b. Psitins n issues

2 c. Slick Willie 2. The electin f 1992 a. The Clintn-Gre team b. The Pert wild card c. Results V. Dmestic plicy in Clintn s first term A. Cntrversy ver gays in the military B. Clintn s ecnmic prgram 1. Deficit-reductin package barely passed 2. Apprval f NAFTA C. Health-care refrm 1. Backgrund 2. Clintn s plan 3. Vested interests ppsed 4. Demcrats drp fight fr universal medical cverage VI. Republican insurgency A. Republican landslide in midterm electins f 1994 B. Demcrats resent Clintn s waffling C. Republicans Cntract with America 1. Rise f Newtn Lery Gingrich 2. Fate f individual prvisins 3. Republican revlutin fizzles ut D. Legislative breakthrugh 1. Increase in minimum wage 2. Welfare refrm E. The electin f Bb Dle fr Republicans 2. The campaign 3. Demcratic victry

3 VII. Ecnmic and scial trends f the 1990s A. The new ecnmy B. Factrs behind the ecnmic bm C. Status f affirmative actin begins t shift D. Scandals 1. Whitewater 2. The Lewinsky affair 3. Impeachment 4. Senate acquittal 5. Clintn s gd and bad qualities VIII. Freign-plicy challenges A. Haiti B. The Middle East C. The Balkans 1. Bsnia 2. Ksv IX. Glbalizatin X. The electin f 2000 A. Demcrats nminate Albert Gre Jr. B. Republicans nminate Gerge W. Bush C. Electin results D. Outcme determined by a decisin f the Supreme Curt XI. Gerge W. Bush s presidency A. Ecnmic cnditins and plicies recessin 2. Tax cuts B. N Child Left Behind C. Expliting the envirnment D. Glbal terrrism

4 E. September 11, The hijackings 2. Death tll 3. American and glbal reactin 4. al Qaeda and the Taliban F. War n terrrism 1. Bush s new sense f purpse 2. Attack n Afghanistan G. Terrrism at hme 1. Office f Hmeland Security 2. Airprt security 3. Patrit Act XII. Bush Dctrine A. Preemptive military actin B. Secnd Persian Gulf War (Iraq War) 1. Ratinale fr attack n Saddam Hussein 2. Operatin Iraqi Freedm 3. Military results 4. Challenges f Iraq recnstructin 5. Renewed insurgency 6. N weapns f mass destructin 7. Increasing human and financial csts f ccupatin XIII. The electin f 2004 A. Gerge W. Bush, Republican candidate B. Jhn Kerry, Demcratic candidate C. Bush carries Ohi and wins secnd term XIV. Secnd-term blues A. Hurricane Katrina 1. Terrible destructin in New Orleans and elsewhere

5 2. FEMA s inept respnse 3. Imprtance f levee failure and lss f wetlands B. Stalled presidency C. Demcratic victry in 2006 cngressinal electins D. The surge in Iraq 1. Iraq Study Grup recmmendatins 2. Bush instead increases trp levels 3. The surge s partial success E. Ecnmic wes 1. The bursting f the husing bubble 2. Credit cntractin and recessin 3. Stck market prices cllapse 4. Bush bails ut the banks XV. A histric electin A. Bush s accumulated negatives B. Hpeful indicatrs fr the Demcrats C. Barack Obama betters Hillary Clintn fr the nminatin D. Obama s backgrund E. Jhn McCain s backgrund F. Palin and Biden as running mates G. The fall campaign 1. Obama s prmise f change 2. The dminance f the ecnmy hurts McCain 3. Decisive victry fr Obama XVI. Obama s first hundred days A. Cabinet chices B. Histric inauguratin C. Quick actin n campaign pledges D. A massive stimulus bill passed by Cngress

6 E. Whither Iraq? XVII. Reviving the ecnmy A. American Recvery and Reinvestment Act B. Patient Prtectin and Affrdable Care Act (PPACA) C. Regulating Wall Street 1. Wall Street Refrm and Cnsumer Prtectin Act XVIII. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan A. The Obama Dctrine B. U.S. cmbat trps withdrawn frm Iraq C. Surge in Afghanistan D. Death f Osama bin Laden E. Arab awakening F. Libya usts Gaddafi XIX. Plitical reactin during the Obama Administratin A. Tea Party B. Cnservative resurgence C. Occupy Wall Street D. Plarized plitics