Chapter 33: Nation of Nations in a Global Community

1. Chapter 33: Nation of Nations in a Global Community Preview:“A renewed wave of immigration in the last decades of the century was only one way in which global ties increased both diversity in the United States and the nation’s interdependence with the rest of the world. The rise of the Internet signaled a revolution in global communications and commerce as well.” The Highlights: The New Immigration The Clinton Presidency: Managing a New Global Order The Clinton Presidency on Trial The United States in a Networked World Multiculturalism and Contested American Identity

2. 32-12 • The Election of 1988 • Vice-President George Bush versus Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts • Bush won with 54 percent of the popular vote McGraw-Hill

3. 32-13 An End to the Cold War • A Post-Cold War Foreign Policy • The fall of communism • Policy of “status quo plus” • The Gulf War • Saddam Hussein • Operation Desert Storm (1991) McGraw-Hill

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5. 32-15 • Domestic Doldrums • Environmental issues • “Education Summit” • The Conservative Court • The Clarence Thomas hearings • Stance on Affirmative Action • Disillusionment and Anger • S&L crisis • AIDS (early 1980’s) McGraw-Hill

6. 32-16 • The Election of 1992 • Gramm-Rudman Act (1985) • White-collar unemployment • “It’s the Economy…” “What role would the United States play in the post-cold war era, when it stood as the lone superpower in the world arena? That was a question for William Jefferson Clinton as he sought to lead the United States into the twenty-first century”(1098). McGraw-Hill

7. 33-2 The New Immigration • The New Look of America-Asian Americans • Prosperous newcomers • Blue-collar Asians • Asian downward mobility • The New Look of America-Latinos • The Dominicans of Washington Heights • East Los Angeles McGraw-Hill

8. 33-3 • Illegal Immigration • Immigration and Control Act of 1986 • By 1996, the illegal population of Latinos stood at about 5 million people • Links with the Home Country • By 1992, amount of funds sent worldwide was so great it was surpassed in volume only by the currency flows of global oil trade • Banda music McGraw-Hill

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10. 33-5 “The global nature of the new immigration also reshaped the religious faiths of America”(1110). • Religious Diversity • Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic beliefs • Catholic Churches increasingly celebrated mass in both English and Spanish McGraw-Hill

11. 33-6 The Clinton Presidency: Managing a New Global Order • Clinton: Ambitions and Character • Clinton agenda • Don’t ask; don’t tell • Whitewater • The New World Disorder • Clinton hoped to pay less attention to foreign affairs • Americans in Haiti McGraw-Hill

12. 33-7 • Yugoslavian Turmoil • Conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia • Dayton Accords (1995) • Intervention in Kosovo • Middle East Peace • Middle East peace negotiations • The new global “world order” would be difficult to maintain McGraw-Hill

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14. 33-9 “The effects from a calamity in one area of the world rippled outward in unpredictable ways. In 1997 and 1998 a series of shocks nearly brought the world financial system to its knees”(1115). • Global Financial Disorder • Thai crisis sets off an Asian recession • Financial crisis at home McGraw-Hill

15. 33-10 The Clinton Presidency on Trial • Recovery without Reform • Clinton program • NAFTA • Health care reform • The Conservative Revolution Reborn • The Contract with America • Government shutdown • Welfare reform McGraw-Hill

16. 33-11 • Conservatives and the Feminist Agenda • UAW v. Johnson Controls • Contrasting views of feminism • Scandal • The Lewinsky affair • Impeachment • Acquittal • The Politics of Surplus • Social security crisis • Defeat of nuclear test ban treaty McGraw-Hill

17. 33-12 The United States in a Networked World • The Internet Revolution • The Galactic Network and ARPANET • The personal computer • The World Wide Web and E-commerce • American Workers in a Two-Tiered Economy • Wage stagnation • Diverging income levels • Effects of prosperity McGraw-Hill

18. 33-13 Multiculturalism and Contested American Identity • African Americans and the Persistence of the Racial Divide • Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots • Complexity of the riots • The O.J. Simpson case McGraw-Hill

19. 33-14 • African Americans in a Full-Employment Economy • Inner-city renewal • Proposition 209 against affirmative action • Persistent poverty • Global Pressures in a Multicultural America • Proposition 187 and illegal aliens • English as an official language McGraw-Hill