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Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise:
A History of the United States
Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 31
The End of the Cold War and the
Challenges of Globalization
Since 1989
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval:
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
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Gridlock in Government
Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf
The End of the Cold War
The 1992 Election
The Clinton Administration’s Search
for the Middle Ground
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Clinton’s Promise of Change
The Clinton Administration Moves Right
Impeaching the President
The Booming Economy of the 1990s
The United States in a Globalizing World
• Defining America’s Place in a New World Order
• Debates over Globalization 1160
• The Internationalization of the United States
President George W. Bush: Conservatism
at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad
• The Disputed Election of 2000
• The Domestic Policies of a “Compassionate
Conservative”
• The Globalization of Terrorism
• Unilateralism, Preemption, and the Iraq War
Chapter 31
The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of
Globalization: Since 1989
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Map 31.1 Events in the Middle East, 1989–2007 (p. 1148)
Map 31.2 Events in Eastern Europe, 1989–2002 (p. 1150)
Map 31.3 The Election of 2000 (p. 1168)
Figure 31.1 The Growth of Inequality: Changes in Family Income, 1969–
1998 (p. 1156)
Global Comparison: Countries with the Highest Military Expenditures, 2005
(p. 1158)
Bush and Taxes (p. 1146)
Fall of the Berlin Wall (p. 1149)