1. George H.W. Bush
Lecture 5

2. Standard
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.

3. 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”

4. R
George Bush
48,886,588
426 D
Michael Dukakis
41,809,485
111

6. 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

7. 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

9. Russia Boris Yeltsin, 1991 communists imprisoned Gorbachev in 1991
Boris Yeltsin led millions in the streets in Moscow
USSR separated into 15 countries

11. Panama
Manuel Noriega, 1989
12,000 US troops invaded Panama and arrested dictator Noriega for drug trafficking
got a 40-year prison sentence

12. 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