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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 31 “‘A Nation Transformed’: 1989–2008”
COMMON THREADS
 How did deindustrialization continue to affect the United States?
 How did the new conservatism of the 1980s continue to influence
American politics and culture?
 How did the African American civil rights movement continue to
influence the nation into the twenty-first century?
OUTLINE
The Age of Globalization
The Cold War and Globalization
New Communications Technologies
Multinationals and NGOs
Expanding Trade
Moving People
America and the World: Globalization’s Final Frontier
The Politics of a New Economy
The Information Economy
A Second Economic Revolution?
Boom and Insecurity
The Return of Inequality
The Power of Conservatism
Contesting Globalization
A Changing People
A Diverse Society of Color
African Americans in the Post–Civil Rights Era
Culture Wars
Women in the Postfeminist Era
Winning Gay and Lesbian Rights
America in the Post–Cold War World
The New World Order
The Persian Gulf War
Retreating from the New World Order
Al Qaeda and 9/11
The Global War on Terror
American Landscape: Gitmo, “The Least Worst Place”
The Iraq War
America in Crisis
Iraq and Afghanistan in Turmoil
The Economy in Jeopardy
The Presidential Election of 2008
The Obama Administration
Continuing Crisis
Conclusion
WHAT?
WHO?
“Family values”
George H.W. Bush (“Bush 41”)
Biotechnology
George W. Bush (“Bush 43”)
Bush Doctrine
Bill Clinton
Globalization
Saddam Hussein
Information economy
Osama bin Laden
Neoconservatism
Ted Turner
New World Order
NGOs
Subprime mortgages
World Trade Organization
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What innovations spurred globalization after the cold war?
2. What were the main features of the information economy?
3. Why were Americans so often frustrated by the political system
after the cold war?
4. What set apart the globalization of the 1990s and 2000s from
earlier linkages between the United States and the rest of the
world?
5. How did the foreign and security policies of the two presidents
Bush differ? Which was more successful?
6. Did the global war on terror change American life in a fundamental
way?
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS