REAGAN’S DOMESTIC POLICIES

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REAGAN’S DOMESTIC POLICIES REAGAN & BUSH REAGAN’S DOMESTIC POLICIES

RONALD REAGAN

THE ECONOMY Reagan proposed a tax cut and less government spending Supply-side economics: increasing supply of goods “Reaganomics” What did Congress and Reagan do in 1981?

ECONOMY CONTINUED Domestic programs were cut…what was increased? Military spending Since we cut taxes and drastically increased military spending we increased our federal debt Deficit spending 1980-1990: $909 billion to $3.2 trillion By 1983 the economy improved

1984 ELECTION Reagan runs for re-election He wins because… Of the strong economy, high employment, low interest rates

FUN FACT: HE USED TO BE AN ACTOR

REAGAN’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS REAGAN & BUSH REAGAN’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS

COLD WAR Increased military spending Built up the military Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) “Star Wars”

USSR AND US USSR has another new leader: Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost and perestroika Gorbachev and Reagan signed the… Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

BUSH AND THE SOVIET UNION REAGAN & BUSH BUSH AND THE SOVIET UNION

GEORGE H.W. BUSH

USSR Gorbachev wants to continue the arms control started with Reagan Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) glasnost People demanding democracy; spreading throughout USSR and Eastern Europe Movement eventually spread to Germany

GERMANY November 9, 1989: Berlin Wall falls 1990 East Germany and West Germany reunite to form Germany

USSR December 25, 1991 Gorbachev announced the end of the Soviet Union and Communism COLD WAR IS OFFICIALLY OVER!!!

MIDDLE EAST AND ECONOMIC ISSUES REAGAN & BUSH MIDDLE EAST AND ECONOMIC ISSUES

PERSIAN GULF WAR Saddam Hussein—Iraq’s dictator Invasion of Kuwait—U.S. ally President Bush launched Operation Desert Shield Preventing an invasion of Saudi Arabia Hussein was ordered to leave Kuwait But he did not. Deadline of January 15, 1991

CONTINUED… Operation Desert Storm: attack of Iraq by air Second phase of Desert Storm: a ground war Military action stopped and Kuwait was liberated Iraq accepted cease-fire terms

SADDAM HUSSEIN

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