abeka history 11 section 29.2

george h. w. bush

elected to the presidency in 1988

tiananmen square

demonstration of freedom in China

manuel noriega

dictator of Panama captured by the US

nelson mandela

communist sympathizer and of South Africa

october 1990

East and West Germany reunited

START (strategic arms reduction treaty)

agreed upon by the Soviet Union and America

boris yeltsin

president of the Russian Republic in 1991

commonwealth of independent states

a union formed by 12 former Soviet republics

1991

fall of the Soviet Union

saddam hussein

dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait for oil

kuwait

fill in the blank

saddam hussein was the dictator of Iraq who invaded _______ for oil

operation desert storm

mission to liberate Kuwait

colin powell

commander of operations in Operation Desert Storm

norman schwarzkopf

led American troops in combat in the Persian Gulf War

persian gulf war

shortest war America has ever fought

2.5

fill in the blank

the persian gulf war lasted ____ months

clarence thomas

conservative Supreme Court Justice nominated by President Bush

naturalism

only the natural world exists and anything spiritual can be dismissed as fiction

intelligent design (ID)

a new movement which asserted that the world came into being by a designer, not random chance

Edwards v. aguillard

court case that ruled that teaching creationism was unconstitutional