Transcript RAH Day 5 Agenda

RAH Day 42 Agenda
• Goal –To understand that significant social, economic and technological
changes occurred in the 90s.
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Pick up crossword puzzle for homework for Friday
Review p 3 about how life and technology changed in the 1990s
Review p 4 about how demographics changed in the 1990s
Review from p 7 and 8 about global trade and it affects the US
Complete p 9 about how foreign policy changed in the 1990s
Questions from homework – answering all of the course review
questions
• quiz
P3 - Technology and Modern Life
1. Communications – internet, e-mail, information “superhighway”, WWW, cell
phones, fax, v-chip
1. 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
3. Genetic engineering – GM or GE foods, conflict over these products.
Therapies and stem cell issues
4. Entertainment – DVDs, CD-ROM, CD, satellite TV, IMAX
5. Education – more computers, networking and data tracking, teleconferencing
and online schools, digital libraries
P3 - Technology and Modern Life
6. Transportation – better safety belts, airbags and global positioning systems
(GPS), capable of better fuel efficiency, lots of SUVs
7. 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 America
Urban Flight – the
nation goes
suburban
1. By ’90 half of all Americans lived in Suburbs
2. By ’85 14 out of 21 richest counties were suburban
3. 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 79
5. By 2030 20% of US will be over 65
6. From 1955 to 1995 the federal spending on the
elderly went up to 1/3 of all federal spending
Immigration – the 7. 45% of immigrants come from the Western
nation looks
Hemisphere – 30% from Asia
different
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 America
Urban
Baby Boomers –
getting older
1. Declining tax base in cities
2. Education poor in cities
3. Inequality in gov’t services between suburbs and
cities
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 1. Illegal immigrants
nation looks
2. Need for low-paid farm workers
different
3. Terrorism fear increases a little – but becomes an
issue in 2001
4. Demand for services for illegals – like hospital and
education
Education and
1. Linking schools to the internet
technology
2. Easier ability to cheat
Clinton job approval
Cable News Network, USA Today. CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll # 2000-20:
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Center, University of Connecticut [distributor], 2001.
P9 - Foreign Policy After the Cold War
Goal –
Goal –
1. Stop WMDs
2. Stop aggression
3. Stop terrorism
Pros
Makes world
safer
Prevents
human
misery
Helps trade
Goal –
1. Promote global
trade
Pros
Cons
Makes world Hurts human
safer
rights,
Cons
Hurts
sovereignty
of other
countries
Costs US
money
US may
have to give
up nukes of
look like
hypocrites
Prevents
human
misery
Helps the
poor
Helps
human
rights
Better ties
to other
countries
costs jobs
Safety
Exploitation
abroad
Environment
Too interconnected
w/ other
countries
1. Spread human
rights and
democracy
Pros
Cons
Makes world Could lead
safer
to wider
conflict
Prevents
human
Costs US
misery
money
Helps trade
US may look
like
hypocrites
Too interconnected
w/ other
countries
terrorism
Al 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
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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 foreign & domestic ideas upon election
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Be humble in foreign policy
No nation building, treat other nations with respect
“reform the UN”
Kyoto global warming protocol is flawed
Need to develop new anti-missile shield, need to break the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty
Keep US troops at home, no new adventures like Clinton’s Somalia,
Yugoslavia, and other misadventures
Home
Cut taxes
Limit size of federal government
Fix education
Compassionate conservatism - Help people through faith-based programs
Open federal lands to new oil drilling and weaken environmental
protections for factories
Strengthen the power of the presidency
Create a new energy policy that would benefit business
Al 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
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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 foreign & domestic ideas after 9/11
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Be bold in foreign policy to fight a “War on Terror”
Lots of nation building to spread “freedom and democracy”
Ignore the UN if necessary to “protect the Homeland”
(pulled out of Kyoto but this had nothing to do with 9/11)
Continue to develop new anti-missile shield because the Axis of
Evil of Iran, Iraq and North Korea may attack at any time.
Attacked Afghanistan in October and invaded from November
2001 to the present
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
Invaded and occupied Iraq March 2003
Captured many “terrorists” and imprisoned them in
Guantanamo and other secret CIA-run prisons