George H.W. Bush Lecture 5
Standard 11.11.2 Discuss the significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton (e.g., education, civil rights, economic policy, environmental policy) Essential Question: Explain George H.W. Bush’s Foreign Policy initiatives.
Bush’s Domestic Policy 1988 George H.W. Bush WWII fighter pilot and ex-CIA director and VP Bush had high approval for his foreign policy but low marks for raising taxes in 1990 “Read My Lips”
R George Bush 48,886,588 426 D Michael Dukakis 41,809,485 111
Bush’s Domestic Policy Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990 rights of America’s disabled access to places of business and to employment Wheelchair ramps, Braille, etc. followed by Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 1990
Tis Over The Party’s Over, 1991 Lech Walesa led Solidarity in Poland Nobel Peace Prize, 1983 Berliners tear down wall in 1989 after East German government allows trips to West Berlin Germanys reunite in 1990 Cold War officially ends
Russia Boris Yeltsin, 1991 communists imprisoned Gorbachev in 1991 Boris Yeltsin led millions in the streets in Moscow USSR separated into 15 countries
Panama Manuel Noriega, 1989 12,000 US troops invaded Panama and arrested dictator Noriega for drug trafficking got a 40-year prison sentence
Waka Waka Nelson Mandela, 1990 end of apartheid in South Africa brought Mandela out of prison he’d been in prison since 1962 elected president in 1994 many US firms put economic pressure on South Africa to release Mandela