BRIDGE TO THE 21ST CENTURY OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY 333 The final totals underscored the tightness of the election: Bush won 271 electoral votes to Gore’s 266, but Gore led him in the national popu- lar vote 48 .4 percent to 47 .9 percent . Nader polled 2 .1 percent and Bu- chanan .4 percent […]
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THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2000 AND THE WAR ON TERROR The Democratic Party nominated Vice President Al Gore to head its ticket in 2000 . To oppose him, the Republicans chose George W . Bush, the governor of Texas and son of for- mer president George H .W . Bush . Gore ran as a
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INTIMATIONS OF TERRORISM Near the close of his administra- tion, George H .W . Bush sent Ameri- can troops to the chaotic East African nation of Somalia . Their mission was to spearhead a U .N . force that would allow the regular movement of food to a starving population . Somalia became yet another
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AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE CLINTON YEARS Bill Clinton did not expect to be a president who emphasized foreign policy . However, like his immediate predecessors, he quickly discovered that all international crises seemed to take a road that led through Washington . He had to deal with the messy af- termath of the 1991
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THE ELECTION OF 1996 AND THE POLITICAL AFTERMATH President Clinton undertook his campaign for re-election in 1996 under the most favorable of circum- stances . If not an imposing person- ality in the manner of a Roosevelt, he was a natural campaigner, whom many felt had an infectious charm . He presided over a growing
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THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1990s By the mid-1990s, the country had not simply recovered from the brief, but sharp, recession of the Bush presidency . It was entering an era of booming prosperity, and do- ing so despite the decline of its tradi- tional industrial base . Probably the major force behind this new
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LAUNCHING A NEW DOMESTIC POLICY In practice, Clinton’s centrism demanded choices that sometimes elicited vehement emotions . The president’s first policy initiative was designed to meet the demands of gays, who, claiming a group status as victims of discrimination, had CHAPTER 15: BRIDGE TO THE 21ST CENTURY OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY 325 become an important
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THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION As the 1992 presidential elec- tion approached, Americans found themselves in a world transformed in ways almost unimaginable four years earlier . The familiar land- marks of the Cold War—from the CHAPTER 15: BRIDGE TO THE 21ST CENTURY “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who
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THE GULF WAR The euphoria caused by the draw- ing down of the Cold War was dramatically overshadowed by the August 2, 1990, invasion of the small nation of Kuwait by Iraq . Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, and Iran, under its Islamic fundamentalist regime, had emerged as the two major military powers in the oil-rich
END TO THE COLD WAR When Bush became president, the Soviet empire was on the verge of collapse . Gorbachev’s efforts to open up the USSR’s economy ap- peared to be floundering . In 1989, the Communist governments in one Eastern European country af- ter another simply collapsed, after it became clear that Russian troops
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