New Millennium
Louise Basile
2009
Election of 2000
• Republican – George W. Bush & Dick
Cheney
• Democrat – Al Gore & Joseph Lieberman
Tax Cuts
• 2001 Largest tax cut in 2 decades
– Surplus dwindles
• 2003 Bush announced deficit to top $200
billion
• 2003 Bush cut taxes – 3rd largest in history
Bush – Domestic Policy
• “No Child Left Behind”
• “Faith-based initiatives” – executive order
• Reform Social Security – more choice
– Idea died after crash of 2008
Treaties Abandoned
• Bush abandons Kyoto Protocol 2001
– Global warming treaty from 1997
• Abandons ABM Treaty
Globalization
• The Triad
– 90% of multinational corps. In North America, Europe
and Japan.
• Home to 15% of world’s population
• Produce 75% of world’s goods
• Wealth
• UN report – “global inequalities in income and living
standards have reached grotesque proportions”
• WTO-global rules of trade (161 members
currently)
• International Monetary Fund - 188 countries, working to
foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability,
facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable
economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
• CAFTA signed by Bush 2005
– (Central American Free Trade Agreement)
9/11/01
• Osama Bin Laden
• Al Qaeda
War on Terror
• Operation Enduring Freedom –
Afghanistan
USA Patriot Act
• Wiretaps, searches of business records,
bank records, & surveillance of “lone
wolves” – suspected of terrorist activity
• 1st signed by Bush
• Extended by Obama 2011
Homeland Security
• Reorganization of federal agencies.
• Includes:
– Immigration and Naturalization Services
– U.S. Customs
– Secret Service
– Coast Guard
– FEMA
• “Axis of Evil” 2002 State of Union Address
– Iran
– Iraq
– North Korea
• North Korea w/drew from Nonproliferation of
Nuclear Weapons Treaty
Bush Doctrine
• Confront threats to security before they
reached U.S. shores.
• Unilateralism v. multilateralism
• Preemptive war?
• Bush UN address:
– “regime change” in Iraq
– UN Resolution – Iraq disarm or face “serious
consequences” 1441 (2002)
• Passed unanimously
• UN inspectors return to Iraq
• U.S. House and Senate authorize use of military
action in Saddam did not comply
Iraq
• UN report –
– Iraqi weapons “highly critical” but not
“damning”
– 2003 State of Union Address – Bush
announced he would attack Iraq w/out UN
approval
– Feb. Colin Powell presented Iraqi War
rationale to UN
• Russia, France and Germany “military option” last
resort
“Operation Iraqi Freedom”
• March 19, 2003
• Britain and U.S. “Coalition of the Willing”
• April 9th Baghdad falls
• May 1st U.S. declared official end to
combat operations.
• July Iraqi interim gov’t announced
• Price of war 3.9 billion a month – “off
budget”
• Dec. 2003 Saddam Hussein captured.
• UN Inspector David McKay resigned
– No WMDs found in Iraq
• 2006 Hussein tried and hanged
– Iraq new constitution approved
• 2007 “Troop Surge”
2004
• UN inspector David McKay resigned
– No WMD found in Iraq
• Abu Ghraib prison pictures released
• UN Atomic Energy Commission told Iran to
stop enriching uranium.
• Bush defeated Kerry for 2nd term.
• Arafat died.
• Missile defense system test failed.
Iran
• Concealed nuclear activities
• 2004 UN Atomic Energy Commission told
Iran to stop enriching uranium.
2005
• Hurricane Katrina
• August 29, 2005
– 1,800 deaths
– Massive damage
2006
• North Korea tested nuclear missile in
mountains
2007
• Bush commutes Libby sentence but does
not pardon him.
2008
• Jan. $145 billion stimulus package to
rejuvenate economy
• Sept.
– Housing bubble collapsed
– Jobs lost
– Unemployment
• Bush vetoes legislation banning
water-boarding by CIA
• $700 billion financial bailout signed by
Bush – TARP
Social Issues
• 2003- Bush signed bill banning partial birth
abortion procedure.
• 2006 Senate rejects same sex marriage
ban amendment
• 2006 Bush vetoed law to expand stem cell
research using federal funds.
• 2007 Supreme Ct. upholds partial birth
abortion ban
Migration
• South & West – retirees
• From China & former Soviet Union
• Mexicans increase after NAFTA
Women
• # of women in college surpass men
• Head of household not assigned
automatically to men
• # of women executives of corporations
increase
• Pay gap decreasing
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