1980s

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1980s
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NEW RIGHT

• Moral Majority
• Supported- school prayer, strong defense,
  free-market economics
• Opposed- abortion, equal rights amendment, gun
  control, forced busing
• Supported conservatives

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REAGANOMICS

• Supply-side economics
• Lower taxes
• Less government regulation
• Less government spending

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FOREIGN POLICY

• Called the Soviet Union the evil empire
• Increased defense
• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
• Poland- Solidarity under Lech Walesa
• Nicaragua- Sandinistas
• Contras
• El Salvador

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REAGAN APPOINTMENTS

• U.N. Ambassador- Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Supreme Court- Sandra Day OConnor
• Chief Justice- William Rehnquist
• Bork nomination
• Scalia and Kennedy

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ELECTION OF 1984

• Rep- Reagan
• Dem- Walter Mondale
• V.P.- Geraldine Ferraro
• Reagan wins

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OTHER ISSUES

• Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
• Tax Reform of 1986
• Insider Trading
• Stock Market Crash 1987
• Savings and Loan Crisis

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RELATIONS WITH SOVIETS

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall
• INF Treaty

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IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR

• Oliver North
• John Poindexter
• Televised hearings

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ELECTION OF 1988

• Rainbow Coalition- Jesse Jackson
• Dem- Michael Dukakis
• Rep- George Bush
• Bush wins