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=__**Chapter: 24**__ = media type="custom" key="3755061" __The Election of 1988__ __The New President__ __Drugs, Education, and the Environment__ __The Savings and Loan Crisis__ __Reducing the Deficit__ __The Election of 1990__ __Flags and the Supreme Court__ __The End of the Cold War__ October 4 1990 the Berlin Wall came down __New Directions in Latin America__ __Unrest in China__ __A Policy Toward South Africa__ __Wat Clouds in the Middle East__ __Fugitives in a Desert Drama__
 * On the election day George Bush took 426 electoral votes to Micheal Dukakis's 111 electoral votes.
 * the republicans had an easy choice to succeed Ronald Reagan as president.
 * On the democrats side they had a half dozen candidates that were eager to take down Bush.
 * After WWII Bush left his home state of Connecticut, to begin a oil business in Texas.
 * Bush promised a "kinder, gentler nation" as he acted with caution
 * In 1988 while the campaign was going on Bush spoke strongly on the illegal drugs.
 * William Bennett was hired to be a "drug czar" to our nation's war on drugs.
 * Bush was creating a large federal deficit would rule out expensive new antidrug programs.
 * A rash of savings bank failures put tons on pressure on the nations finances.
 * 1970 when the interest rates sored savings banks were stuck with low interest.
 * Through 1990 Congress and the president struggled over a budget that lowered the deficit.
 * The president and congress later reached a agreement that would cut 500 billion over 5 years.
 * During the election members of congress found voters an angry mood.
 * flag burning was just one of many controversial issues facing the supreme court
 * Supreme Court struck down a Texas law crime.
 * Soviet dominated governments had controlled the nations of Eastern Europe.
 * the first stirrings occurred in Poland.
 * George Bush took a less militant approach toward affairs in Nicaragua than Ronald Reagan had.
 * For Many years Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega had been considered a friend to the U.S.
 * The wave of reform that swept communist Europe sent shock waves through China
 * President Bush disapproved of the return to repression.
 * The worldwide move toward democracy also seemed to spread South Africa.
 * Early in Bush's term events in South Africa took and encouraging turn.
 * On August 2 1990 Saddam Hussein's troops invaded Kuwait.
 * Kuwait was on of the richest in oil producing.
 * Hundreds of Americans living far from home faced and unpredictable and dangerous situation with Iraq.
 * Tanks rumbled through streets of Kuwait City gunfires echoed.
 * Saddam allowed some foreigners to leave Kuwait but only women and children.