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The Bush Presidency Ch. 32 Sec. 2 Pp. 928-933 A New World Order • George Bush, Reagan’s V.P. is elected president • Democrats control House and Senate A Changing Soviet Union • Soviet leader Gorbachev wanted to end arms race and reform the Soviet Union • 1991 – Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) – US and USSR agreed to destroy nuclear weapons for 1st time Unrest in the Soviet Union • Shortages of food and basic goods because of heavy defense spending and govt. mismanagement • Thousands marched in Moscow in 1990 demanding an end to Communist rule • Unrest spreads throughout Soviet Union A Rising Tide of Freedom • In Poland, shipyard workers form Solidarity labor union • Government forced to hold open elections in 1989 • Communist rule starts to end in Eastern Europe The Wall Comes Tumbling Down • Communist govt. in East Germany opens Berlin Wall in 1989 • 1990, East Germany votes to reunite with West Germany Collapse of Soviet Union • In USSR, some reformers wanted faster changes, but military and secret police resisted changes • 1991 – Communist officials and army generals stage a coup (an overthrow of the govt.) • Yeltsin, president of Russian Republic resists and coup fails A New Foreign Policy • Panama – Gen. Noriega is removed by US for drug trafficking • China – economic reforms, but not political • Troops crush student protests in Tiananmen Square • Bush continued to trade with China Persian Gulf War Operation Desert Storm • Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 • Coalition forces under UN leadership invade in 1991 • Saddam Hussein was left in power • US helps rebuild Kuwait • Bush’s popularity is at 90% War in the Balkans • Yugoslavia was made up of several republics/ethnic groups • Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence • Serbs fought them in a civil war • 1992 – UN boycotted trade with Serbia because of atrocities Domestic Issues • During 80s, Reagan administration had cut banking regulations • S&Ls began losing millions because of bad loans and declining real estate • Federally insured, so it cost taxpayers almost $500 billion Economic Downturn