The 1980s Ronald Reagan & George Bush

1. The 1980sRonald Reagan & George Bush

2. Liberalism • Government should • Regulate the economy • Help the disadvantaged • Protect citizens from power of large companies • NOT regulate social behaviors

3. Conservatives • Government shouldn’t • Regulate the economy • Hurts free enterprise • Oppose high taxes • Discourage investment • Oppose social programs • Discourage peoples incentive to work. • Religion faith is important to morality.

4. OK…Remember the 70s • Carter = BAD President • Unemployment • Inflation • Failed Foreign Policies • International embarrassments

5. New Right • Coalition of • Evangelicals / Catholics • Conservatives • Corporate leaders • Comprised to fight against • Business Regulation (ECONOMY) • Taxes • Laws • Against policies that favored (MORALITY) • Minorities • Homosexuals • Welfare recipients • Feminist

6. ENTER…………

7. I. Trickle Down Supply Side Tax cuts = Research= New Products= Expansion= New jobs

8. II. Defense Spending • Between ‘81 and ‘84 defense spending doubled. • Military • Weapons • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles • Bases • Strategic Defense Initiative

9. Defense Spending contd. • Foreign Policy • Peace through strength • Massive Soviet spending would collapse their system. • Example • Strategic Defense Initiative aka Star Wars Satellite weapon that can destroy incoming missiles

10. Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called SDI….or ‘Star Wars’

11. III. Budget Cuts Large Defense Spending + Low Taxes = Deficit Spending CUT THESE OUT • urban mass transit • food stamps • welfare • job training • school lunch

13. IV. Deregulation Lowered prices and increased competition by • Removing price controls on oil • eliminating inspections for nursing homes • deregulated the airlines • TOO MUCH Regulation limits profits • TOO LITTLE Regulation can be unsafe for people & economy

14. Sandra Day O’Connor • First Woman appointed to the Supreme Court

15. 1984 Summer Olympics 1 United States 83 61 30 174 2 Romania 20 16 17 53 • Los Angeles, CA • Carl Lewis wins 4 gold medals • 1st since Jessie Owens • McDonalds nearly goes bankrupt… • USSR boycotts due to Cold War tensions • *US boycotted Olympic games in Moscow 1980

16. 1984 Presidential Election Republican President Reagan Democratic Walter Mondale

17. Geraldine Ferraro • Became the first woman Vice President running mate.

19. Reagan Foreign Policy

20. Afghanistan 1979-1989 • Proxy war with the Soviet Union • US Sent 500 million in munitions and relief • 1989 Soviet withdraws due to significant economic problems at home. • US assistance helped Afghans hold off Soviet Union

21. 1982 Marines in Lebanon • Israel invaded Lebanon • Christians v. Palestinians • US Marines sent to restore order. • Pres. Reagan removed troops from Beirut.

22. Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional Nicaragua • Sandinistas- Rebels who removed PRO-US dictator and established a socialist government. • Contra (Counter Revolutionary) • Used by Reagan to combat Sandinistas • Congress banned further aide to contras Sandinista National Liberation Front

23. “I was under orders from my superiors." Iran-Contra Scandal • U.S . sales munitions to Iran (a sworn enemy) without the approval of Congress. • Illegal sales were to secure the release of six U.S. hostages held by the Lebanese • Lt. Col. Oliver North – Facilitated the selling of weapons to Iran and used the money to support guerilla fighters in Nicaragua • ILLEGAL---Reagan did not get in trouble. Lt. Col. Oliver North Many involved were convicted under Reagan but pardoned under Bush. North granted immunity for his testimony.

24. Collapse of the Soviet Union

25. 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev • Arms Reductions • New Economical Policies • New Political Structure • Reforms to government • Withdraw from Afghanistan

26. The Opening of the Soviet Union-1985 • Perestroika • political & economical reform • argued to be one reason for the fall of Communism in the  • Soviet Union • Eastern Europe • End of the Cold War • Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev called for • Glasnost (Openness) freedom of • Speech • religion • press

27. Eastern Europe • Glasnost spreads • Poland • Hungary • Czechoslovakia • Revolutions • Democracy • Free Elections • Collapse of the Berlin Wall • Germany Unified

28. Balkan Wars • Yugoslavia erupts into bloody civil war. • Ethnic cleansing • Eventually six republics • Serbia • Croatia • Bosnia • Montenegro • Macedonia • Slovenia

29. Soviet Union collapses • Spending • Inefficient planning • Arms Race • People protest govt. • Eastern Europe & Balkans add to pressure • Coup D'état to remove Gorbachev • Soviet Union broken into 15 republics • Communism outlawed in Russia Boris Yeltsin

31. Challenger Space Shuttle DisasterJanuary 28, 1986 It broke apart 73 seconds into its flight

32. 1980s defined • Gang Violence • Crips/Bloods • MADD • Stricter laws against driving under the influence. • Crack Cocaine • Very cheap, highly addictive floods inner city streets. • HIV/AIDS • Virus baffles doctors, scientists • Scares the nation

33. Presidential Election 1988 Republican George Bush Democratic Michael Dukakis

36. U.S. Invasion of Panama December 1989 • Panamanian dictator & drug lord Manuel Noriega was deposed. • President-elect Guillermo Endara sworn into office.

37. China • Tiananmen Square • Students/workers protest for democracy. • 1 million protest • Thousands Killed • Communist leaders want to stay in Power • Tank Man= Symbol of Protest

38. Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 In China

39. The Army Moved In To Clear Out the Demonstrators

40. The Unknown Rebel..aka the “Tank Man”