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1980s
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Reagans Presidency
  • Republican Elected in 1980
  • Was an actor who became Gov. of CA
  • Known as the great communicator
  • Reagan stole some Democratic voters away
  • Popularity increased after he survived an
    assassination attempt
  • Nancy Reagan
  • Played a major role in running the White
    House by advising on policy
    issues protecting
    Reagans interests
  • Ran a Just Say No antidrug campaign
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZIcnBccjgMw

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Reagans Presidential Agenda
  • Goals
  • Reduce federal bureaucracy, deregulate certain
    industries, cut taxes, increase defense budget,
    take a hard line with USSR
  • Reaganomics Reagans plan for tax spending
    cuts
  • Supply-side economics theory that breaks for
    businesses will increase supply of goods/
    services, aiding the economy
  • 1981-82 worst recession since the Great
    Depression unemployment increased
  • Economic growth in mid-80s was uneven favored
    wealthy

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Reagans Foreign Policy
  • Reagan termed the USSR the evil empire
  • Reagan increased defense spending initiated SDI
  • Shield that would shoot down missiles (Star Wars
    nickname from popular 1980s movie)
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vuLDK0G4Wktc
  • Gorbachev wanted to rebuild U.S. relationship
  • INF Treaty (1988) reduced nuclear arms weapons
  • Reagans famous speech Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
    this wall!
  • Berlin Wall came down in 1989
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vzmRPP2WXX0U

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Foreign Policy Issues
  • Nicaragua Civil War
  • U.S. supported dictator Somoza but in 1979 the
    Sandinistas (communists) ousted him
  • 1981 Reagan gave 20 million to CIA to train the
    Contras without informing Congress
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vmYHpmmtJnjM
  • Lebanon
  • Civil war between Muslim Christian factions
  • 1982 Israel invaded to expel the PLO
  • 1983 intl peacekeeping force arrive
  • A bomb killed the marines inside (1st suicide
    terrorist attack against the US.)
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vgKStVcteLkQ

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Iran-Contra Affair
  • Iran-Contra
  • Despite a congressional ban on U.S. funding the
    Contras, Reagans staff continued
  • NSA McFarlane had Reagan send weapons to Iran in
    hopes of releasing hostages in Lebanon (violated
    U.S. arms embargo)
  • National Security Council staff diverted money
    from illegal arms sales to Contras in Nicaragua
  • Info revealed in 1986
  • Lt. Col. Oliver North destroyed documents
  • Reagan Bush denied knowledge
  • High-level Reagan staff lied to Congress
    withheld evidence overturned convictions on
    technicalities
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vQZNukeWdWnM

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President George H.W. Bush
  • Bushs background
  • WWII navy pilot Congressional member from TX,
    U.S. ambassador to U.N., head of CIA, VP under
    Reagan
  • President
  • Elected in 1988 (over Dem. Dukakis) despite low
    turnout due to negativity
  • Campaign promise Read my lips No new taxes.

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Bushs Foreign Policies
  • Opening of the USSR
  • Glasnost opening public criticism of the
    govt
  • Perestroika restructuring of the corrupt govt
    bureaucracy
  • USSR collapses
  • Revolutions in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
    Romania (some violent)
  • Gorbachev was ready to grant partial treaties to
    Soviet republics gt held captive by Communist
    Party
  • Boris Yeltsin (Russian Republic leader) helped,
    tipping power gt Gorbachev resigned as Pres.
  • Bush Pres. at the end of the Cold War
  • US Soviet leaders signed START (reduce weapons
    treaty) in 1991 1993
  • http//www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-sov
    iet-union/videos/the-fall-of-the-soviet-union

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Other Bush-Era Conflicts
  • China
  • Tiananmen Square massacre Chinese students
    protested for democracy
  • Tanks surrounded protestors fired
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Aug. 1990 ruthless dictator of Iraq Saddam
    Hussein invaded Kuwait (oil-rich area)
    committed atrocities
  • U.N. imposed sanctions but Hussein was defiant
  • Jan. 1991 U.S. attacked in Operation Desert Storm
  • Harsh desert terrain made technology most
    effective
  • http//www.history.com/topics/persian-gulf-war/vid
    eos/operation-desert-storm-vet-jon-custer

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Life in the 1980s
  • Technology
  • Personal computers Steve Jobs
    Steve Wozniak apple Bill Gates
    Microsoft
  • Challenger Space Shuttle (1981) with Christa
    McAuliffe
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vj4JOjcDFtBE
  • Cell phones introduced
  • 1980 Olympics
  • Summer Olympics boycotted by Carter because held
    in Moscow
  • Winter Olympics highlight was US hockey team
    defeating the Soviets gt called the Miracle game
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqYscemhnf88

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Social Changes
  • Women
  • Sandra Day OConnor 1st female Supreme Court
    justice 1981
  • Geraldine Ferraro 1984 1st female VP candidate to
    Walter Mondale
  • Court Issues
  • Clarence Thomas (1991) Bush nominee to Supreme
    Court
  • AIDS
  • 1981 scientists identified disease of acquired
    immune deficiency syndrome caused by HIV
  • Initially started among homosexual men
    intravenous drug users gt suffered discrimination
  • Since has spread to millions through bodily
    fluids sexual contact

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Popular Culture
  • Music
  • New Kids on the Block, Run DMC, Debbie Gibson,
    Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston, Paula Abdul
  • TV
  • Dallas, Magnum P.I., Smurfs, Cosby Show, Cheers,
    MTV, A-team, Baywatch, Full House
  • Movies
  • The Goonies, E.T., Indiana Jones, Back to the
    Future, Terminator, The Breakfast Club, Ferris
    Bueller
  • Misc
  • Fashion, Nintendo, Atari, Cabbage Patch Dolls, My
    Little Pony, Care Bears, Micro Machines
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