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1 Modern America APUSH, Unit 15

2 Conservative Resurgence
“Reagan Revolution” “Reaganomics” Tax Cuts – trickle-down Denouncing “big government” Increased Defense Budgets Higher national debt ($3-trillion by ’88) Immigration Reform & Control Act (1986) Expansion of Medicare The National Debt, 1930–1999

3 Last Phase of the Cold War
Nixon’s Cold War Détente / SALT Ford Helsinki Conference (July 1975) Human Rights Fall of Saigon Carter SALT II Soviets invade Afghanistan Iran Hostage Crisis

4 Last Phase of the Cold War
Reagan’s Cold War Peace Through Strength Strategic Defense Initiative “Star Wars” Increased Defense Budgets “MAD” vs. “NUTS” Mutually Assured Destruction Nuclear Utilization Theory

5 Last Phase of the Cold War
USSR & Mikhail Gorbachev glasnost & perestroika 1988 Election – George H.W. Bush Tiananmen Square, China (1989) Poland – Solidarity (Aug. 1989) Berlin Wall (Nov. 1989) START I (1991) Dissolution of the USSR (12/25/1991)

6 New Foreign Policy Challenges
Middle East Camp David Accords (1978) Hostage Crisis Iran-Iraq War ( ) Saddam Hussein Marine barracks bombing, Lebanon Western Hemisphere Nicaragua "Sandinistas“ vs. "contra" rebels Iran-Contra affair Col. Oliver North

7 New Foreign Policy Challenges
Persian Gulf War, 1992 Saddam Hussein Liberation of Kuwait Somalia, 1993 Rwanda, 1994 Balkan Crisis, Growth of Al Qaeda Embassy Bombings, 1998 USS Cole, 2000 September 11, 2001

8 New Foreign Policy Challenges
September 11, 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, 2001 Afghanistan, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein Abu Ghraib prison US Role in the Modern World?

9 Issues & Challenges for the New Century
Multiculturalism “Family Values” 1992 Election Clinton, Bush & Ross Perot Globalization NAFTA, 1993 G8 IMF, GATT, WTO Multinational Corporations Contract with America, 1994 Clinton Impeachment, 1999

10 Issues & Challenges for the New Century
2000 Election Bush v. Gore Bush Tax Cuts 2008 Financial Crisis Great Recession 2008 Election Obama vs. McCain American Recovery & Investment Act (2009) Tea Party Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (2010)

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