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41. George H. W. BUSH, Sr.<\/strong> was a one term Republican who served from 1989 \u2013 1993.  He is often referred to as \u201cBush 41,\u201d \u201cBush the Elder,\u201d or \u201cGeorge Bush, Sr.\u201d to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who was the 43rd<\/sup> president.  During his presidency, Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act.  In China in June, 1989, the massacre in Tienanmen Square occurred.  In 1992, riots broke out in Los Angeles after a video showed Rodney King, an African American, being beaten by white police officers.  55 people died in these riots, and over 2,000 people were injured.   Later, King famously said, \u201cCan\u2019t we all just get along?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before\nbecoming president, Bush enlisted in the US Navy on his 18th<\/sup>\nbirthday in order to serve during WWII; he became the youngest aviator\nin the US Navy at the time.  After the\nwar he was a businessman, US Representative, ambassador, Director of the\nCIA, and vice president.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Persian Gulf War <\/strong>(or Gulf\nWar, First Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, or Kuwait War) was fought to\nhelp Kuwait after Iraq invaded and annexed that country.  President Bush assembled an international\ncoalition (cooperative group) of 34 nations to fight Saddam Hussein\u2019s\n(the leader of Iraq) army.  There was\na fierce, five-week long air campaign followed by a ground assault\nwhich lasted just 100 hours before a ceasefire was announced.  After pushing the Iraqis out of Kuwait, Bush\nmade the controversial decision not to continue on and overthrow Hussein.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

End of the Cold War and the Soviet Union<\/strong>!  The Berlin Wall was knocked down in 1989,\nuniting the city.  A year later all of East\nand West Germany re-united.  In 1991\nthe USSR broke apart into 15 post-Soviet states.  Bush signed two START (Strategic Arms\nReduction Treaty) treaties, first with the USSR and then with Russia; these\ntreaties greatly reduced the number of nuclear weapons.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amendment 27<\/strong> was\nratified. It states that any Congressional pay raises must be delayed\nuntil after the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raised taxes<\/strong> after\nsaying during his campaign, \u201cRead my lips: no new taxes!\u201d  Bush reneged (went back) on his campaign\npromise and signed a tax increase in order to deal with rising deficits.  After this, a recession, rising\nunemployment, and continuing budget deficits, Bush did not win\nre-election.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launch of the World Wide Web (www.) and the first web browser made the Internet mainstream.  <\/strong>Although there were precursors during the 1980’s, Tim Berners – Lee, an English engineer, is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 and developing both the first web server, and the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) in 1990.  In 1993 Marc Andreessen developed the web browser NCSA Mosaic (later Netscape) which was particularly easy to use and install and is often credited with sparking the internet boom of the 1990’s.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being president, Bush dedicated his presidential library and was active, often alongside Bill Clinton, in various humanitarian activities. He died in November, 2018, at 94 years old. With George W.<\/em> Bush’s victory, Bush, Sr. and his son became the second father\u2013son combination to serve as president, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams.                (All from Wikipedia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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41. George H. W. BUSH, Sr. was a one term Republican who served from 1989 \u2013 1993.  He is often referred to as \u201cBush 41,\u201d \u201cBush the Elder,\u201d or \u201cGeorge Bush, Sr.\u201d to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who was the 43rd president.  During his presidency, Bush signed the Americans with … Continue reading “41. George H. W. BUSH, Sr.: PEARL”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":562,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions\/431"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughhistory.net\/home\/2019\/06\/05\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}