2. EQ To what extent did Reagan’s foreign policy represent a return to traditional themes of Cold War and power politics?

4. Conservative President New Federalism: New Federalism was Reagan’s social program for America which called for the following: – cutting taxes and government spending

5. Supply-Side Economics

6. Supply-Side Economics: the economic theory that tax cuts would improve the economy in the following ways: – businesses would have more money to invest – consumers would also have more money to spend – as businesses invested and consumers spent more business would grow – as business grew more people would be employed – more employment would increase tax revenues to the government

7. Supply-Side Economics Reagan cut taxes by 25%

8. Reaganomics Deficit Spending: – an economic practice where more money is spent than is taken in by tax revenues – eight straight years of deficit spending under Reagan – mostly on military and social spending – national debt reached $2 trillion

9. Reaganomics Deregulation: removing many government rules that limited business competition – most anti-trust laws not enforced

10. Debtor Nation Debtor Nation: – eight years of deficit spending turned America into the world’s largest debtor nation – first time since World War I – U.S. owed more money to other nations than other nations owed to U.S. – annual interest payments on U.S. debt $150 billion

12. “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”. Ronald Reagan

16. Foreign Policy Renewed American Power: – Reagan restored American strength and power abroad in the following ways: – sent U.S. military to defeat communist takeover in Grenada – supported Contra movement to overthrow communist dictatorship in Nicaragua {Sandinistas} – sent U.S. jets to bomb terrorist nation of Libya – sent military equipment to help Afghan guerillas fight Soviets – spent billions to develop “Strategic Defense Initiative” to destroy enemy missiles {called Star Wars}

18. Foreign Policy Iran-Contra Affair: – investigators revealed that members of Reagan Administration had done the following: – illegally sold weapons to Iran {a terrorist nation} – used the money to help the Contra guerillas in Nicaragua without Congressional approval

19. Reagan Under Fire “A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not”. President Reagan

22. Iran-Contra Connection

24. Star Wars Program *Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

32. The Reagan Doctrine *Provide overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements in an effort to “rollback” Soviet backed communist governments in Asia, Africa and Latin America”.