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CH 33 STUDY GUIDE NATION OF NATIONS IN A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS

1. The sources of the “New Immigration” to the U.S.

2. The “New Immigration” results: pro & con

3. Juan Chanax & the American Dream

4. Asian Americans in 1970s versus 2000

5. Latino immigrant settlement areas

6. Illegal immigrants & the U.S.-Mexican border

7. In the 1990s, money & U.S. to immigrants’ countries of origin

8. Religious diversity in America during the 1990s

9. William Jefferson Clinton in 1993 as an activist president

10. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy

11. Sub-Saharan African countries with brutal civil wars in the early 1990s

12. Political instability in Haiti & the U.S. intervention in 1994

13. In 1995 and 1999, President Clinton’s use of American military force in Europe

14. The financial crisis in the mid-1990s & Japan

15. Clinton’s first Congressional victory & the deficit

16. The NAFTA treaty & the economies of Mexico and Canada

17. Kenneth Starr’s report to the House of Representatives & presidential impeachment

18. The scandal that led to President Clinton’s impeachment: criminal or civil

19. The American people & support for the Republican effort to vote impeachment

20. The impeachment scandal & the President’s actions

21. Connecting distant computers to share computer capacity

22. The universal computer system & the World Wide Web

23. The “dot com” term & the Internet

24. The median income of American families in 1996 with 1973

25. The earnings of the average white male worker: 1973-1996

26. Winners in the computer-based economy & educational level

27. The economic prosperity of the late 1990s: results

28. The 1992 Los Angeles riot

29. Public opinion on the O. J. Simpson trial & the justice system: race & class conflicts

30. California Proposition 209: racial / gender preferences in hiring and college admissions end

COMPLETION

1. Amy Tan’s novel [ ] described the migration of upwardly mobile Chinese professionals to upscale urban and suburban neighborhoods.

2. In the late 1970s, immigrants from [I ] began to go into the motel business in America in significant numbers.

3. Along the West coast, [ ] remained in the 1990s a magnet for Latino immigrants.

4. Congress attempted to stem the flow of illegal immigrants in to the U.S. by passing the [ ].

5. The new immigrants to the U.S. could maintain close links with their countries of origin because of improved systems of [ ] and [ ].

6. Hilary Clinton was the most politically active presidential wife since [ ].

7. Accusations were published early in Clinton’s presidency that while he was governor of Arkansas had received special treatment from a failed real estate venture known as [ ].

8. In 1991, UN troops were used to restore order in the Caribbean nation of [ ].

9. The [ ] agreement linked the American economy closely to those of Canada and Mexico.

10. The earliest conception of the Internet, put forth in 1962, was termed the [ ].

IDENTIFICATION

Students should be able to describe the following key terms, concepts, individuals, and places, and explain their significance:

Terms and Concepts

|Rainbow Coalition |Affirmative Action |

|Gay rights |The New Immigration |

|Latinos |Illegal Alien |

|Banda |New Global Order |

|Don’t Ask; don’t tell |Dayton Accords |

|NAFTA |Contract with America |

Names and Places

|Monica Lewinsky |Internet |

|Rodney King |O.J. Simpson |

|East Los Angeles |Bosnia |

|Serbia |Rwanda |

|Kenneth Starr |Jean-Bertrand Aristide |

|Yasir Arafat |Itzhak Rabin |

Critical Thinking

EVALUATING EVIDENCE (ILLUSTRATIONS AND CHARTS)

1. In the painting on page 1103, why is the worker depicted as a saint?

2. Which of the graphs on page 1105 illustrates the changing ethnic make-up of American society best?

3. In the photograph on page 1113, what role do the UN soldiers appear to be playing in this conflict?

4. What point is being made in the drawing on page 1118 about the new Republican-controlled Congress?

5. What is the message contained in the drawing of the Statue of Liberty on page 1131?

CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Students have been asked to read carefully the following excerpt from the text and then answer the questions that follow.

Determined to focus on domestic issues, Clinton hoped to pay less attention to foreign affairs. He discovered that the “new world order,” hailed by both Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush, seemed more like a world of regional disorders. The United States depended heavily on Russian president Boris Yeltsin to bring order out of chaos, yet market reforms failed to revive Russia’s stagnant economy. Although Yeltsin maintained his own grip on power, he suffered from chronic ill health and routinely dismissed rivals for power. Elsewhere in the world, rampant ethnic and nationalist movements provoked a number of regional crises. By using American power in a limited way, Clinton gained considerable public support.

In sub-Saharan Africa, corruption and one-party rule severely weakened most economies, tribal violence mounted, and AIDS became epidemic. Brutal civil wars broke out in both Somalia and Rwanda. As candidate, Clinton had supported President Bush’s decision in December 1992 to send troops to aid famine-relief efforts in Somalia. But attempts to install a stable government proved difficult. Tragically, the United States as well as European nations failed to intervene in Rwanda before over a million people were massacred in 1994.

Instability in Haiti pushed the president to take a bolder approach closer to home. In 1991 Haitian military leaders had forced their country’s elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile. The harsh rule that followed prompted over 35,000 refugees to flee toward the United States, often in homemade boats and rafts. When a UN sponsored economic embargo failed to oust the military regime, the Security Council in 1994 approved an invasion of Haiti by a multinational force. American troops proved crucial in convincing the military to leave. A smaller UN force stayed on to maintain order as new elections returned Aristide to the presidency.

Europe’s most intractable trouble spot proved to be Yugoslavia, a nation divided by ethnic rivalries within a number of provinces, including Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia. After 1991 Bosnia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia, which was dominated by Serbia and its leader, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic urged the Serbian minorities within Bosnia and Croatia to take up arms, and he sent in Serbian troops to aid them. The Croats had sufficient military force to drive the Serbs out, but in Bosnia the population mix was more complex and resistance was less organized.

PRIMARY SOURCE:

President William Clinton’s State of the Union Address[1]

For 209 years it has been the President’s duty to report to you on the state of the Union. Because of the hard work and high purpose of the American people, these are good times for America. We have more than 14 million new jobs; the lowest unemployment in 24 years; the lowest core inflation in 30 years; incomes are rising; and we have the highest homeownership in history. Crime has dropped for a record five years in a row. And the welfare rolls are at their lowest levels in 27 years. Our leadership in the world is unrivaled. Ladies and gentlemen, the state of our Union is strong. (Applause.)

With barely 700 days left in the 20th century, this is not a time to rest. It is a time to build, to build the America within reach: an America where everybody has a chance to get ahead with hard work; where every citizen can live in a safe community; where families are strong, schools are good and all young people can go to college; an America where scientists find cures for diseases from diabetes to Alzheimer’s to AIDS; an America where every child can stretch a hand across a keyboard and reach every book ever written, every painting ever painted, every symphony ever composed; where government provides opportunity and citizens honor the responsibility to give something back to their communities; an America which leads the world to new heights of peace and prosperity.

When I took office, the deficit for 1998 was projected to be $357 billion, and heading higher. This year, our deficit is projected to be $10 billion, and heading lower. (Applause.) For three decades, six Presidents have come before you to warn of the damage deficits pose to our nation. Tonight, I come before you to announce that the federal deficit—once so incomprehensibly large that it had 11 zeroes—will be, simply, zero. (Applause.) I will submit to Congress for 1999 the first balanced budget in 30 years. (Applause.) And if we hold fast to fiscal discipline, we may balance the budget this year—four years ahead of schedule. (Applause.)

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[1]From President William Clinton’s State of the Union Address, January 27, 1998

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