1. Emerging Republican Ascendancy, 1980-1992
Reagan & Bush
Emerging Republican Ascendancy,

2. Reagan and the New Right
Moral Majority
Phyllis Schafly, The Eagle Forum, and Anti-Feminists
Economy
Alienation of poor and minority voters

3. Falwell and Schafley

4. Reagan I Supply Side Economics SDI El Salvador and Nicaragua
Lebanon and Greneda

5. David Stockman

6. Duarte and Ortega

7. Marine Barracks—10/23/83 241 U. S. dead

8. Reagan II “Morning in America” Tax Reform Act (1986) Iran-Contra
Stock Market Crash
Reagan-Gobachev (1987 Treaty)

9. Lt. Col. Oliver North

10. Gorbachev &
Reagan

11. 1988 Election
Dukakis v. Bush
Race & Gender Gaps
Willie Horton

12. Willie Horton

13. Bush I
Ending of the Cold War
Panama
Iraq I
“It’s the economy stupid.”

14. George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft