The Conservative Tide

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Chapter 33
The Conservative Tide
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In the Winter of 1980, There blew a wind of
change in America

• The Recession of the 1970s was coming to an end
• A Presidential Election was on the horizon
• A new leadership that promised a tougher policy
  on foreign diplomacy
• Iranian Hostage crisis at its height
• America Defeats Communism

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Conservative Issues

• Entitlement Programs
• New Right
• Affirmative Action
• Reverse Discrimination
• Conservative Coalition
• Moral Majority

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Entitlement Programs Programs designed to
provide funds for a certain group of People
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Affirmative Action

• This requires employers and educational
  institutions to give special treatment to women,
  African Americans, and other minority groups
  whether they are qualified or not.
• Called reverse discrimination

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The Conservative Coalition

• Shrink the size of the Federal Government and
  reduce spending
• Promote family values and Patriotic ideals
• Strengthen the national defense
• The Moral Majority

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The New Right

• Focused its energy on the controversial issues
  such as opposing abortion, Blocking Equal Rights
  Amendment and evading the Court ordered Busing.

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Conservatives Win Election of 1980

• Ronald Reagan wins the Presidential Election of
  1980
• Hollywood film star

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Republican
Democratic
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Reaganomics Supply Side Economics
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Supply Side Economics (Trickle Down Economics)

• Cut income taxes
• People have more Money and will put more into the
  banks
• Banks have more money to loan out
• Production goes up and creates a surplus
• Prices go down and the value of the dollar goes
  up.

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Defense Spending
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Sandra Day OConner

• First female associate justice of the supreme
  court

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Presidential Election of 1984
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Mondale/ Ferraro
Reagan/Bush
First Female candidate listed on a president
ticket
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Walter Mondale
Geraldine Ferraro
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Social Concerns of the 1980s
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Cities in Crisis

• Health Issues
• Abortion
• Drug Abuse
• Education

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Health Issues

• Introduction of a new disease rampages its way
  through the US and world

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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Percentages based on Race/Ethnic background
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AIDS Quilt in Washington DC 1987
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Abortion

• States were given more authority in regards to
  passing Abortion restriction

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Drug Abuse
Nancy Reagan
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Equal Rights Struggle

• Racial
• Gender

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Key Players

• Jesse Jackson Ran for Democratic nomination for
  President

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Gender

• Males and Females were paid drastically different
  for the same jobs as the next slide will show.

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Foreign Policy towards the end of the 1980s
leading into the 1990s
Cold war Begins to draw to and End
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Mikhail Gorbachev

• Became the General Secretary of the Communist
  Party in the Soviet Union

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Soviet Reform Initiated by Gorbachev
Glasnost Russian for Openness, Gorbachev
allowed open criticism of the Communist
leadership and freedom of the
Press Perestroika A restructuring of the Soviet
Leadership. Less Governmental Control, and
the introduction of free enterprise
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December 8, 1987

• INF Treaty Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
  Treaty

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Communism Continues in China
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Central America and the Caribbean become Hot
Spots for America
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Central America
1973 Carter recognized the Sandinistas as
the primary Government in Somoza
1981 Reagan Proclaimed that Nicaragua was
fueling revolution for communists governments
and therefore he was supporting the Contras to
overthrow the Sandinistas.
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1983 Reagan sent 2000 troops to the island
of Grenada because they were beginning to show
signs of communism.
1989 Bush Sent 20,000 troops in the
Panama to overthrow the drug lord Manuel
Noriega
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Trouble brewing in the Middle East
First in Iran, Reagan convinced all our allies
not to sell arms to a terrorist state and then
turned around and sold weapons to the Iranians to
fight Iraq
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1988 George Hubert Bush Become President of the
United States
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Persian Gulf War
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Saddam Hussein invades its oil producing
neighbor of Kuwait
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Norman Schwarzkopf
CENTCOM Commander during Desert Storm
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Colin Powell
First in Command Behind Schwarzkopf and carries
out the American Plan of Attack
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Operation Desert Storm
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1992
Rodney King Brutally Beaten by Police Officers
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Verdict of Not Guilty