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1 The Reagan Revolution

2 “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

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4 Revitalized National Pride

5 “Reaganomics” Supply Side Economics Decreased Taxes
Decreased Government Spending on Social Programs Deregulation Increased Military Spending

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7 War on Drugs

8 A New Arms Race - SDI

9 Called the Soviet Union the “Evil Empire”
Massive Military Budgets… Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) Unknown at the time…

10 Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost… Perestroika…

11 Soviets invade Afghanistan

12 Lebanon Grenada

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14 Challenger Disaster

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16 Iran – Contra Affair “Ollie” North

17 “Tear Down this Wall”

18 Fall of the Berlin Wall-1989

19 Collapse of the Soviet Union- 1991

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