1. Identify:
Atomic Weapons

2. Identify
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

3. Lake Placid Olympics

4. The 80’s

5. Election of 1980
Ronald Reagan

6. Reagan
-actor
-spokesman for GE

7. Reagan elected b/c: -Economy not doing well
-Carter and the Iranian hostage crisis

8. Reagan -“Supply Side economics” -social spending cuts
-greatly increased defense budget

9. August 13, 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act: “supply side economics”
tax and regulation cuts for businesses/wealthy people
expanded individual retirement accounts

10. 2nd term: -foreign policy -no experience
-anti-Communist, Soviet Union= “evil empire”
-massive military build-up

11. March 23, 1983 “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative:
-develop missile technology that would
detect/intercept/destroy enemy missiles

12. Middle East

13. “Middle East”

14. America’s plan: -create a buffer zone around Iraq and Syria
-supported Afghan rebels against Soviet Union
-problems with Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi

15. In Lebanon: -hostages (US and European)
-U.S. sold weapons to Iran who was at war with Iraq

16. Latin America

17. America’s plan:
-supported U.S.-friendly dictatorships

18. Grenada -Communist rebellion -800 Am. students there
-US Marines invaded
-19 Americans died
-119 injured
-After invasion, new anti-
Comm. gov’t installed

20. 1982
Anti-Communist rebels (Contras) in Nicaragua

21. Boland Amendments -prohibited US from aiding rebels
-Reagan tries to get around this

22. Iran-Contra Crisis -Reagan took $ from Iran arm sales
-diverted it to Contras (anti-Communists)

23. Soviet Union

24. 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev -new leader of Soviet Union
-changes: glasnost and perestroika
-Reagan+Gorbachev=BFFL’s

26. Reagan and Gorbachev
-agreed to reduce intermediate-range nuclear forces

27. Election of 1988

28. Economics in the 80’s

29. Investing -dangerous patterns -Black Monday (1987)
-business closures/bailouts

30. Society in the 80’s

31. Music + Technology

32. Live Aid

33. Movies

34. 1981 IBM released 1st personal computer $1,565
240,000 orders in the first month

36. Religious Right and Christian Coalition
protested “immorality”
Republican party

37. 1981
First cases of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) reported in US
Researchers discovered HIV
originally thought to be exclusive to gay men and intravenous drug users

38. Reagan + Conservatism
denied funding to AIDS research

39. Early 1990’s more research for AIDS slightly less stigma
not the death sentence it was in the early 80’s

40. January 28, 1986

41. Challenger Explosion
-killed seven crew members
-televised

42. Immigration

43. Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924
Quota system
3% then 2% of a country’s existing pop in America could come per year
no Asian immigration

44. Bracero Program
WWII
Mexican immigrants invited to US

45. Immigration Law of 1965 abolished quotas “family reunion clause”
focus on skilled workers/education
most went to CA/TX/FL/NJ/IL/NY
come from Asia/Latin America as opposed to Europe
debates about immigration
amnesty law

47. American Indians 1988: Indian Gaming Regulation Act
casinos on reservations