RAH Day 41 AgendaRAH Day 41 Agenda• Goal –To understand the social, economic and technological

changes that occurred in the 90s.• Pick up crossword puzzle for homework for Friday• Complete p 9 about how foreign policy changed in the 1990s• Review p 4 about how demographics changed in the 1990s• Review p 3 about how life and technology changed in the

1990s• Review from p 7 and 8 about global trade and it affects the

US• Questions from homework – answering all of the course

review questions• quiz

P3 - Technology and Modern LifeP3 - Technology and Modern Life1. Communications – internet, e-mail, information “superhighway”,

WWW, cell phones, fax, v-chip1. Deregulation like the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed

media companies to compete with each other across media – TV, could own radio, could do phones, long-distance, cable – resulting now in the competition by Verizon and Comcast for your TV, phone and internet dollars – the FCC auctioned off the airwaves to companies (i.e. cell phones)

2. Healthcare – MRI, CT scan PET scan, AIDS drug cocktails, FDA improved drug approval speed, much better prostheses, human genome project and genetic testing.1. Also the new Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) type of

insurance

4. Entertainment – DVDs, CD-ROM, CD, satellite TV, IMAX5. Education – more computers, networking and data tracking,

teleconferencing and online schools, digital libraries

3. Genetic engineering – GM or GE foods, conflict over these products. Therapies and stem cell issues

P3 - Technology and Modern LifeP3 - Technology and Modern Life6. Transportation – better safety belts, airbags and global positioning

systems (GPS), capable of better fuel efficiency, lots of SUVs7. Space exploration – more shuttles, hubble space telescope,

beginning of international space station and cooperation with Russians, Europe and the US and Japan

8. Environment – recycling picks up, lots of waste still produced, zero and low emission vehicles, cancers from acid rain, air quality still an issue, beginning of public awareness of global warming and climate change, still an issue of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants.

P4 - Changing Face of AmericaP4 - Changing Face of AmericaUrban Flight – the nation goes suburban

1. By ’90 half of all Americans lived in Suburbs2. By ’85 14 out of 21 richest counties were

suburban3. By ’90 31 poorest areas were all urban

Baby Boomers – the nation turns gray – turn from hippies to wall st

4. Average life expectancy goes up to about 795. By 2030 20% of US will be over 656. From 1955 to 1995 the federal spending on the

elderly went up to 1/3 of all federal spendingImmigration – the nation looks different

7. 45% of immigrants come from the Western Hemisphere – 30% from Asia

8. 3.2 million illegal immigrants live in US, by today est 12 million illegals

9. The ratio of whites to non-whites will shrink – currently 76.1% white (US Census Bureau)

P4 - Changing Face of AmericaP4 - Changing Face of AmericaUrban 1. Declining tax base in cities

2. Education poor in cities3. Inequality in gov’t services between suburbs

and citiesBaby Boomers – getting older

1. Very big increases on social security system with more people going to be receiving money and fewer people putting into the system – soon only 2 contributors for every one recipient used to be 16 to 1 in 1950

Immigration – the nation looks different

1. Illegal immigrants2. Need for low-paid farm workers3. Terrorism fear increases a little – but becomes

an issue in 20014. Demand for services for illegals – like hospital

and educationEducation and technology

1. Linking schools to the internet2. Easier ability to cheat

Clinton job approvalClinton job approval

Cable News Network, USA Today. CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll # 2000-20: Microsoft/Parents/'Socially Responsible' [computer file]. 1st Roper Center for Public Opinion Research version. Lincoln, NE: Gallup Organization [producer], 2000. Storrs, CT: The Roper Center, University of Connecticut [distributor], 2001.

P9 - Foreign Policy After the Cold WarP9 - Foreign Policy After the Cold WarGoal –

1. Stop WMDs2. Stop aggression3. Stop terrorism

Goal – 1. Promote global

trade

Goal – 1. Spread human

rights and democracy

ProsMakes world saferPrevents human miseryHelps trade

ConsHurts sovereignty of other countriesCosts US moneyUS may have to give up nukes of look like hypocrites

ProsMakes world saferPrevents human miseryHelps the poorHelps human rightsBetter ties to other countries

ConsHurts human rights, costs jobsSafetyExploitation abroadEnvironmentToo inter-connected w/ other countries

ProsMakes world saferPrevents human miseryHelps trade

ConsCould lead to wider conflictCosts US moneyUS may look like hypocritesToo inter-connected w/ other countriesterrorism

Al QaedaAl Qaeda• Sunni Muslim global organization loosely led by:• Osama Bin Laden – a younger son of a very wealthy Saudi

Arabia family that is friends with the Bush family• Operates out of Afghanistan and Pakistan• Goal is to try to destroy Israel• Destroy the global power of the US – including getting the

US out of Saudi Arabia• Spread Strict Islam to all of the Middle East – maybe even

the world• Method is to use terrorism like

– World trade center bombing in 1993, – Attack on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998– 2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen– 2001 attacks on 9/11– Bombing of Madrid trains 2004– London Subway 2005

Bush’s Bush’s foreignforeign & & domesticdomestic ideas upon ideas upon electionelection

1. Be humble in foreign policy2. No nation building, treat other nations with respect3. “reform the UN”4. Kyoto global warming protocol is flawed5. Need to develop new anti-missile shield, need to break the Anti-

Ballistic Missile Treaty6. Keep US troops at home, no new adventures like Clinton’s

Somalia, Yugoslavia, and other misadventuresAt Home1. Cut taxes2. Limit size of federal government3. Fix education4. Compassionate conservatism - Help people through faith-based

programs5. Open federal lands to new oil drilling and weaken environmental

protections for factories6. Strengthen the power of the presidency7. Create a new energy policy that would benefit business

Al QaedaAl Qaeda• Sunni Muslim global organization loosely led by:• Osama Bin Laden – a younger son of a very wealthy Saudi

Arabia family that is friends with the Bush family• Was trained by CIA operatives as one of the mujahedin in

Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion there• Operates out of Afghanistan and Pakistan• Goal is to try to destroy Israel• Destroy the global power of the US – including getting the

US out of Saudi Arabia• Spread Strict Islam to all of the Middle East – maybe even

the world• Method is to use terrorism like

– World trade center bombing in 1993, – Attack on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998– 2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen– 2001 attacks on 9/11– Bombing of Madrid trains 2004– London Subway 2005

Bush’s Bush’s foreignforeign & & domesticdomestic ideas after ideas after 9/119/11

1. Be bold in foreign policy to fight a “War on Terror”2. Lots of nation building to spread “freedom and

democracy”3. Ignore the UN if necessary to “protect the Homeland”4. (pulled out of Kyoto but this had nothing to do with 9/11)5. Continue to develop new anti-missile shield because the

Axis of Evil of Iran, Iraq and North Korea may attack at any time.

6. Attacked Afghanistan in October and invaded from November 2001 to the present

7. Beat the drums of war on Iraq to 1. Rid Iraq of WMDs, 2. Stop Iraq from spreading terrorism like 9/11 3. Give Iraqis freedom from the mean dictator – Congress approves use of force October 2002

8. Invaded and occupied Iraq March 20039. Captured many “terrorists” and imprisoned them in

Guantanamo and other secret CIA-run prisons