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=section 3 Bush takes over=  No one but van Buran became president after vice president for 150 year. Then George w. Bush became president in 1988. Bush was a republican.

=The Election of 1988=  Bushes running mate was Senator J. Danforth Quayle. The democrats had Governor MIchael Dukakis and Reverend Jesse Jackson, Jackson was the first black person to run in a major party. In the end the democrats chose Dukakis and his running mate was Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. Dukakis didn't win Bush did and he received 53 percent of the popular votes and Dukakis got 46 percent. Bush had 426 electoral votes and dukakis had 111.  =The new presiden t =  Bush had a lot of exprience mostly because of war world II. He was a member of the congress as an ambassador. He wanted move forward from the reagan era and be less conservative.

=Drugs, Education and the Environment =  Bush wanted to control the spread of illegal drugs. He appointed William Bennett to look after that. They try to make a anti-drug programs in 1990 Bennett resigned and claimed that drug use had begun to drop. The flow of drugs continued. Bob Martinez replaced him. Bush call a conference of the nations governors to set national goals for education. Bush appointed William Reilly to be the head of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Trying to reduce air pollution. Nuclear waste was a big problem.

=The Savings and Loans Crisis =  A rash of savings bank failures put even more pressure on the nation's finances. These savings and loan institution are know as th S&L. The S&L try to encourage saving money. interest rates soared in the late 1970s, saving banks were stuck with low interest, long-term mortgages.

=Reducing the Deficit =  The saving and loan crisis added to the growing deficit in the federal budget. To reduce the deficit Congress and the President needed ether to cut spending or raise more money. They lowered the deficit by He failed pass a budget by October 1. Bush saw that he might have to increase taxes just a little to help even though he said he would never do that.

=The election of 1990 =  The new budget agreement had reduced the deficit more than any legislation during the Reagan years. There still was a lot more to do in 1990 but Bush got reelected.

=Flags and the supreme court =  The supreme court couldn't do anything about the man who burnt the flag because it would of been going against the first amendment. They cant do that because it would start a up roar

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Section 4 A world in transition = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> =<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">The end of the cold war = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> Since the end of the cold war the soviets dominated governments had controlled the nations of Eastern Europe. Berlin wall came down and it united east and west Berlin. Democracy spread there Eastern Europe against communist. American responds was good they like that democracy was spreading.

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">New Directions in Latin America = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> Bush took a less militant approach toward affairs in Nicaragua than Reagan did. Bush didn't press for military aid to the contras. Bush administration worked out a bipartisan agreement with congress. But we provided contras with food and clothes and medical supplies. We invaded Panama because of the heavily drugs smuggling.

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Unrest in china = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> Since democracy was spreading it went to China. Chinese students started to campaign for democracy. Hundreds and thousands gathered at Tiananmen square in the capital city of Beijing. America was watching and hoping that China would give in and became a democracy. They didn't.

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">A policy toward south Africa = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> Democracy also spreaded to south Africa but the African government continued to pursue the policy of apartheid.

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">War Clouds in the middle east = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> The middle east still remained a threat to world peace. Iraq rebuilt its military after the Iran-Iraq war ended. Then he started invading other boarding countries. It was a big threat because of all the oil in the middle east. In response Bush immediately dispatched American soilders to Saudi Arabia.

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Fugitives in a Desert Drama = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> Iraq kept moving on and invading Kuwait and killing people. They invaded businesses and even hospitals removing valuable goods and shipping them back to Iraq

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">War in the Persian Gulf = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> A lot of Americans were waiting to see we would leave Kuwait and Iraq so the war wouldn't increase but Bush sent a additional 200,000 troops to the Middle East. That means we could of launched a attack on Iraq if neccesary

=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">LAWRENCE TOWNS PD 4 =