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President Reagan President Reagan

Election 1980 Reagan won 91% of the electoral vote Appealed to Americans with references to the “good old days”

Why Reagan wins Jimmy Carter was weak and inefficient “Moral Majority Iran Hostage Crisis “Moral Majority California goes Republican “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

Reagan assassination Attempt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sHUPdTUmds Secretary of State Alexander Haig “I am in Control” http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/politics/2010/02/20/sot.haig.im.in.charge.cnn.html Just 69 days into Reagan's Presidency an assassination attempt is made on his life. Potential Assassin John Hinckley Jr. fails to kill Reagan but does wound the President, a Secret Service agent and W.H. Press secretary James Brady

Economy rapid inflation Supply-side economics a.k.a. Reaganomics What: Cuts taxes (especially to the rich) rich people would reinvest in businesses and hire workers (end regulation) End the welfare state

` Not the movie! Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)--1983 Massive satellite defense system designed to shoot down Soviet missiles Known as “Star Wars”

Foreign Policy- term 1 Intervention in South America Stop the spread of communism in to the Americas Countries like: Grenada, Nicaragua, and El Salvador

Election of 1984 Walter Mondale vs. Ronald Reagan Reagan won the election with 98% of the electoral vote First president since Eisenhower to serve a second term

Space Shuttle Challenger On January 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 76 seconds into its flight. This was viewed live on National TV and later that night President Reagan addressed the American public. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7293827n http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganchallenger.htm

Problems in the Middle East and Latin America Iran-Contra Affair- 1986 top American officials sold weapons to Iran in order to free American hostages in Lebanon Money from the sales went to support Nicaraguan contras What would be the constitutional issues with this?

Troubles elsewhere Battling the drug trade “Just say no” Ending apartheid- Economic sanctions on South Africa

Renewal of Détente Reagan and Gorbachev led talks between the two superpowers Made possible because of Gorbachev’s new policies of perestroika (free enterprise) and glasnost (openness)

Tear Down this Wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8