George H. W. Bush, the Persian Gulf War, and the Post-Cold War Order
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 16 Bush managed the Soviet collapse cautiously George H. W. Bush entered office as communist governments fell across Eastern Europe. He avoided triumphal rhetoric, supported German reunification within NATO, and worked with Mikhail Gorbachev on arms reductions. The Berlin Wall's opening did not itself dissolve the Soviet […]
Culture Wars and the AIDS Crisis
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 15 Culture-war issues organized competing moral narratives Abortion, school prayer, textbooks, sexuality, feminism, affirmative action, pornography, guns, arts funding, and family policy became symbols of national identity. Conservative activists argued that courts, bureaucracies, universities, and media had displaced community standards. Liberals and movement activists emphasized pluralism, equality, […]
