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[|Part 2]media type="custom" key="3745037" This is another song written by P.Diddy in 1997. The 1990's were full of activity.

//**A World In Transition **// //**The End of the Cold War? **//


 * **Polish government outlawed Solidarity.**
 * **Solidarity movement made the communist government allow them to run for Polish parliment.All won.**
 * **Solidarity leader replaced a communist as head of government.**


 * //__A Wall Comes Down__//**


 * **November 1989, East German government said it was opening the wall **
 * **November 9, 1989 Berlin wall finally opened **
 * **East and West Germany slowly reunited **
 * **Soviet Union & NATO finally agreed to reunite the nations **

__//**Moving Toward Democracy**//__


 * **Demonstrations against communism spread to Czechoslovakia where the government was forced to resign in 1989.**
 * **Chose Vaclav Havel as new president**
 * **Nicolae Ceausescu (dictator in Rumania) fled when prodemocracy demonstrations strengthened.**
 * **Soviet Union was forced to begin new democratic reforms(multiparty system)**
 * **Also allowed private ownership of land and buisness**

__//**The American Response**//__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Responded enthusiastically**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Bush praised rise of democracy and promised __some__ economic support**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**1990 budget reduced defense spending**

//**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">New Directions In Latin America **//

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**U.S. would provide the contras with food, clothing, and medical supplies**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Daniel Ortega & Sandinista Party ran**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Violeta Chamorro won**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Victory for democracy**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Ortega's Brother retained control of military**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Chamorro's power was dwindling**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">Relations btwn. U.S. & Nicaragua were unsure **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">

__//**Invasion Of Panama**//__


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Manuel Noriega(Panamanian dictator) was drug smuggling. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">He corrupted Panama's elections & drugs still flowed through the country **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Manuel was tried and the U.S. installed a new government and offered to help rebuild Panama **

//**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">Unrest In China **//

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Chinese students began to campaign for democratic reforms**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Thousands gathered in Tiananmen Square, Bejing to perform demonstrations**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**The protesters were killed, injured or arrested when the regimes struck back**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Bush didn't take rough action against them.**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">A Policy Toward South Africa **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**South Africa pursued apartheid(separation of the races)**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Regan Era-"constructive engagement"-used quiet diplomacy & kept criticism of South African government to a minimum.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Members of Congress called for __economic sanctions-__(limits on trade and investment) to pressure South Africa to end apartheid.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Congress passed a bill to forbid American firms to invest in South Africa or to import South African products**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**__Divestiture-__ state governments sold stock in companies that operated in South Africa**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**1989, South Africa elected new president, F. W. De Klerk.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Pursued series of reforms to ease racial tensions in South Africa and freed Nelson Mendela, black opponent of apartheid who'd been in prison for 27 years.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Bush still kept sanctions in place**

//**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">War Clouds in the Middle East **//


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">Saddam Hussein(Iraqi dictator)rebuilt his military **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">He invaded Kuwait(rich oil-producing nation) **

__//**A Complex Threat**//__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**If Saddam conquered Saudi Arabia & Kuwait he'd control 80% of oil in the region**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Saddam has to be stopped**

__//**The World Responds**//__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Bush dispatched American forces to Saudi Arabia**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**UN & Soviet Union approved a boycott of Iraq**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Saddam held hostages(American & other foreigners) in Kuwait and Iraq**

//**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Fugitives In A Desert Drama **//


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Saddam's Troops looted Kuwait stores, taking goods and shipping them back to Iraq**
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**Americans went into hiding when Saddam only allowed women and children foreigners to leave**
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**If a Kuwait was helping an American they were taken in front of their homes and shot**

//**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">War In The Persian Gulf **//


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**UN's security council made January 15,1991 as a deadline for Iraq's removal from Kuwait**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Prepared by adding 200,000 more troops to the Middle East & allowed for them to attack if necessary**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**In December, Saddam released most of the foreign hostages and rejected negotiations**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Secretary of State Baker met foreign minister of Iraq in a last effor to avert war**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**U.S. launched an air attack after the meeting failed.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">**Was defeated in 6 weeks**