1. Chapter 26 THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION
The American Nation In the Modern Era
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Chapter 26 THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION
Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power
Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term
Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s
CHAPTER 26--THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION

2. Objectives: Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power
What factors helped Ronald Reagan win the presidency in 1980?
What was President Reagan’s main economic program, and how successful was it?
What were the significant developments in the Cold War in the 1980s?
How did the Reagan administration become involved in events in El Salvador and Nicaragua?

3. Factors in Reagan’s win
Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power
Factors in Reagan’s win
frustration with the Iran hostage crisis
Carter’s inability to solve domestic problems
Americans’ insecurity about the future
Reagan’s appeal across party lines

4. Reagan’s economic program
Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power
Reagan’s economic program
supply side-economics
cuts in government regulations
cuts in social programs
brought drop in inflation rate, business recovery, and stock market boom
excluded the poorest Americans and members of minorities from prosperity
increased homelessness

5. Developments in the Cold War
Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power
Developments in the Cold War
SDI controversy
Solidarity movement
shooting down of Korean airliner
placement of American missiles in Great Britain and Germany
Soviet departure from arms-control talks
Soviet boycott of 1984 Summer Olympics

6. Involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua
Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power
Involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua
Reagan feared that Latin America would come under Soviet influence.
In El Salvador’s civil war, Reagan aided the Duarte government.
Reagan used the CIA to help the Contras fight the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

7. Objectives: Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term
How did the Republicans win the 1984 election, and how did the makeup of the Supreme Court change in the 1980s?
What events began to shake public confidence in the economy?
How did the Iran-Contra affair develop?
What developments eased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the late 1980s?

8. Changes in Supreme Court
Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term
The Republican win in 1984
military action in Grenada
increasing participation of women in the Party
Changes in Supreme Court
appointment of first woman
membership more conservative

9. Failing confidence in the economy
Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term
Failing confidence in the economy
huge federal deficits
illegal insider trading
stock market crash
S&L crisis

10. The Iran-Contra affair
Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term
The Iran-Contra affair
Congress cut off funds to the contras.
Reagan administration sold arms to Iran to obtain release of hostages in Lebanon.
Administration used profits to illegally fund the Contras.
Illegal arms sales were discovered.

11. Easing of tensions between U.S. and Soviet Union
Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term
Easing of tensions between U.S. and Soviet Union
glasnost
perestroika
INF Treaty
Gorbachev’s policy of détente
withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

12. Objectives: Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s
How did American society change in the 1980s?
How did the Cold War end?
What led to the Persian Gulf War, and how did it differ from previous U.S. military conflicts?

13. Changes in American society
Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s
Changes in American society
growth of the yuppie lifestyle
doubling of number of single-parent households
PC explosion
rise of technoculture
emergence of AIDS

14. Events ending the Cold War
Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s
Events ending the Cold War
Soviet policy of nonintervention
free elections in Poland and Hungary
fall of communist governments in Czechoslovakia and Romania
pro-democracy demonstrations in East Germany
opening of Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany
Gorbachev’s loss of power
dissolution of Soviet Union

15. Persian Gulf War Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s
caused by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and ignoring of UN’s deadline for withdrawal
won with high-tech weapons
more television coverage than ever before
significant role played by female troops

16. Bush’s domestic problems
Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s
Bush’s domestic problems
sharp rise in federal deficit
persistence of trade deficit with Japan
growth of number of people living in poverty
economic recession
Thomas-Hill hearings