American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 32: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

Study Questions

1
What political weaknesses did Clinton face? What early missteps compounded his problems?
2
What major domestic and international trade legislation did the Clinton administration manage to push through in its first year? In what ambitious domestic initiative did the administration fail? Why?
3
What did the Clinton administration accomplish in Bosnia? What new Balkan conflict emerged?
4
What happened in the congressional elections in 1994? How did Clinton respond?
5
How did Bill Clinton turn around his political fortunes between 1994 and 1996 to win reelection? What happened in the congressional elections?
6
Describe the welfare reform of 1996.
7
What were some of Clinton's fiscal policy accomplishments?
8
Explain how the Whitewater investigation merged with charges of sexual misconduct to lead to the impeachment of President Clinton. How did his standing with the public hold up through the long controversy?
9
How did the Clinton impeachment trial end? What did the whole episode say about the nature of American politics?
10
How did President Clinton react to Saddam Hussein's refusal to allow weapons inspections?
11
What role did the United States play in restoring a precarious peace to the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia?
12
Explain how the Florida vote count became critical to determining who won the Presidential election of 2000 even though Al Gore won the national popular vote. How did the U.S. Supreme Court get involved? What did the Court rule? Why was it so controversial?
13
How was the closeness of the 2000 and 2002 elections reflected in control of Congress?
14
What was the goal of the George W. Bush tax policy?
15
What unprecedented new approach toward foreign policy was articulated by the Bush administration?
16
How did American corporations of the 1980s and 1990s seek to cut labor costs?
17
Describe the economic boom that stretched from late 1983 to 2000. What led to the collapse of the stock process and the recession that followed?
18
How evenly was the economic boom of the mid-1980s and 1990s spread across the population?
19
Compare the benefits and costs of the rising globalization of the American economy. Which workers suffered most?
20
How did the Windows-based personal computer and Microsoft Corporation come to dominate the market?
21
What parts of the country benefited especially from the computer industry?
22
Describe the technological evolution of the Internet. What was the role of government and universities in this process?
23
How did the Internet and the World Wide Web system revolutionize communications?
24
Describe the rise of genetic engineering. What were the new uses of DNA testing?
25
What are the potentials of stem-cell research? Why was it so controversial?
26
Compare and contrast post-1960s accomplishments of the African-American middle class with those of the underclass. What explains the stark disparity?
27
What precipitated the massive 1992 Los Angeles riot? What broader implications did the event have for American race relations?
28
How effective was the "war on drugs"? How did drug-use patterns change?
29
Why did the pattern of AIDS infection in the U.S. change over time? What new medications provided hope for those infected with HIV? What part of the world suffered most from the epidemic?
30
What were the motivations and key arguments on which the "right-to-life" movement rested its opposition to abortion? What gains did the movement make? How did the "pro-choice" forces respond?
31
To what extent was the environmental movement of the 1970s and 1980s a legacy of the New Left of the 1960s? What were environmentalists able to accomplish?
32
Compare and contrast the forces leading to standardization of mass culture with the newer, more targeted and fragmented influences. How did new media technologies facilitate segmentation?
33
From where did the "most impassioned opposition to globalization" come? Toward what three organizations did these groups direct most of their ire?
34
Describe the tensions within Islam over fundamentalist orthodoxy. How did "Islamism" come to be defined as a battle against the West, especially the U.S.?
35
To what extent had terrorism affected the world and the U.S. prior to 2001? Why were most Americans relatively unconcerned?
36
What new actions and attitudes resulted from the tragedy of the airborne terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon?
37
Describe the outpouring of acts of courage and generosity that followed September 11, 2001. How did the attitude toward government change?
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