1. Ronald Reagan’s Presidency, 1981 - 1989
Changes in American political rhetoric

2. Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987

3. Ronald Reagan & His Presidency
Major Accomplishments
(1) Economic recovery
Reaganomics?
(2) End of the Cold War

4. The actual “Charlie Wilson”
“Charlie Wilson’s War” (2007)
** Depicts United States efforts to assist Afghan “mujahedeen” fighters against the Soviets in the 1980’s.
** In 1989, the “mujahedeen” fighters win, motivating “global jihad.”
Soviet-Afghan War – 1979 to 1989
The actual “Charlie Wilson”

5. Persian Gulf War, Aug. 2, 1990 – Feb. 28, 1991
Purpose: (1) Push Iraq out of Kuwait
(2) Prevent an invasion of Saudi Arabia
** Impact upon “Mujahedeen”
Side Two: “Why did we not invade Baghdad?”

6. U.S. Military Bases Around the World

7. 1992 Presidential Election
How did this election change the Republican Party?
Economic Downturn
“New Democrat”

8. Bill Clinton & His Presidency
“Tech stocks & rise of the Internet”
NAFTA (agreed under George H. W. Bush), implemented under Clinton

9. Bill Clinton & His Presidency
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993

12. Bill Clinton & His Presidency
Health care effort dies
Sex scandals
Monica Lewinsky
Paula Jones
Impeachment

13. 2000 Presidential Election
One of the most controversial elections in U.S. History

14. Infamous Butterfly Ballot

15. 9/11

16. 9/11

17. Al-Qaeda Claims responsibility for attack on USA
Taliban lets Al-Qaeda hide out in their county because they are allies.

18. 9/11
Men who Hijacked planes

19. Analyze the Causes and Effects
The War in Afghanistan
Analyze the Causes and Effects

22. Taliban Takes Charge of Country
1994 – Taliban Rises to power

23. Public Execution in 1999
Taliban Police

24. Operation Enduring Freedom
Invade Afghanistan (Oct. 7, 2001)
Mission:
1) Capture Osama bin Laden
2) Destroy Al-Qaeda network
3) Remove Taliban Regime

25. Timeline Operation Enduring Freedom, October 2001 - 03/24/2013
9/11 Terrorist Bombings
Operation Enduring Freedom, October /24/2013
Kabul taken, 11/09/ /30/2001
Afghan National Army begins training, 2002
First elections in 30 years held, 09/01/ /30/2005
Osama bin-Laden is Killed, 05/02/2011
Planned Withdrawal, 2013
End of U.S. Combat War, 2014

26. Osama bin Laden
Killed

27. Successful or Unsuccessful?
(1) New Government in Afghanistan
Unstable however
(2) Taliban no longer in control
Yet have re-emerged (quadrupled in size) in SE Afghanistan & now parts of Pakistan
NATO losing control in region
(3) Osama bin Laden has been killed
(4) Have destroyed the “safe-haven” or sanctuary for Al-Qaeda
con

29. According to John Quincy Adams (our 6th President), nations should not go “… abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.”

31. ISIS Occupied Territory
“Rise of ISIS explained in Six Minutes”

32. War In Iraq - Shifting Justifications
Links to “terror” and Al-Qaeda
supposed meeting in Prague
WMD
Dubious tubes and uranium purchases
Liberating Iraq

33. Republic of Iraq Ethnic Kurds, in North--15%
Sunni Arabs, in middle--30%
Shi’ite Arab, in South--50%
Iraq was under Arabic Socialist Ba’ath party rule from 1968 to 2003.
In 1979 Saddam Hussein took control and remained president until 2003

34. Iraq War 2003
2003 Mar. 20th ~2011,
Dec. 18th
Reason: A Nation with Weapons of Mass Destruction
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:
Eliminate Saddam Hussein’s regime
Search and destroy WMD
Provide humanitarian assistance
Protect Iraq’s oil and other natural resources

35. Bush 43 Approval Ratings