The Reagan Revolution 1980-1988
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
Revitalized National Pride
“Reaganomics” Supply Side Economics Decreased Taxes Decreased Government Spending on Social Programs Deregulation Increased Military Spending
War on Drugs
A New Arms Race - SDI
Called the Soviet Union the “Evil Empire” Massive Military Budgets… Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) Unknown at the time…
Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost… Perestroika…
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Lebanon Grenada
Challenger Disaster
Iran – Contra Affair “Ollie” North
“Tear Down this Wall”
Fall of the Berlin Wall-1989
Collapse of the Soviet Union- 1991