Military expansion during the 1980s

1. Military expansion during the 1980s By Kenya Chacon

2. What happened ? • The U.S had been humiliated by the outcome of the Vietnam war. Closing doors on America's expansive war in Vietnam our nation was in need of an over haul economy. • On the us military economic use during the 1980s economic fears sense the ending of both world war two and the cold war we the us military budget was into a staggering 43 percent of the increase and by the total of our expenditure and by the ten total thousands of our troops, and more of our weapons and equipment to beefed the intelligent program .

3. Who was there? • Ronald Reagan was inaugurated to be the 40th President of the united states in the 1981 Jimmy carter and Weinberger. Nickola telsa was a SDI,he designed vaporizing missiles from space by way of a laser guidance system in 1985 after the billions of dollars but by the minimal results president Ronald Reagan’s SDI was commissioned to shut down but our research continued. Ronald Reagan jimmy carter Casper Weinberger Nickola telsa

4. Why did it happen? • Because economy was struggling burdened it seemly unstoppable it had low payment had zero maintained it wasn’t worth it families had survive or survived in food stamps. The policies of the American military was plagued by our low morale the inflation of high taxes has had been increased by the upward spiral of interests rates. • food stamps • low payment

5. When did it happened ? • It happened when the soviets in what would be the final years of the cold war . • The carter administration , and began to have had production of the MX peacekeeper missile. Reagan responded to the soviet deployment of the SS-20 missile was an approval his approval of NATO’S deployment. During the late 1970s to the early 1980s .we were also confronting the Berlin wall aka the iron certain. • SS-20 missile • NATO planes • NATO army

6. Where did it happen? • It happened in the us ,Angola, Nicaragua and el Salvador. This is where it happened this are some places that the military expansion happened during the 1980s because the us were having an economic over haul after loosing to the Vietnamese to loosing the war of Vietnam after our second world war. In 1975 the soviets seemed secured in their unrelenting mission to conquer the country of Afghanistan. • AmericaAngolaNicaragua el Salvador • Afghanistan

7. Summary • The U.S had been humiliated by the outcome of the Vietnam war • Ronald Reagan was inaugurated to be the 40th President of the united states in the 1981 The policies of the American military was plagued by our low morale the inflation of high taxes has had been increased by the upward spiral of interests rates. the early 1980s .we were also confronting the Berlin wall aka the iron certain. • 1975 the soviets seemed secured in their unrelenting mission to conquer the country of Afghanistan.