Reagan's Second Term
Published on Nov 24, 2015
Making sure we all took good notes from the reading.
MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
How did the republicans win the 1984 election?
- 1983 Successful Intervention in Grenada
- Reagan expanded the role of women in the Party
- Transportation, HHS, and the Supreme Court!
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How do the Executive & Legislative
Branches exert influence over the Supreme court?
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Concerns over the economy
- Growing federal deficit was alarming
- Congress passed Graham-Rudman-Hollings Act
- Tax Reform Law of 1986
- Deregulation to Stock Market, insider trading
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Concerns over the economy
- October 1987, Stock Market crash
- Savings and Loan crisis (S&L)
- Insider-Trading scandals caused mistrust with investors
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The Iran-contra affair
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Iran-Contra Affair
- Reagan needs to find funding for Contras
- White House bargaining for release of Iranian hostages
- U.S. ships antitank missiles to Iran (through Israel)
- Profits from above go to Contras for arms and supplies
- Lt. Col. Oliver North, convicted for lying and destroying evidence
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End to hostilities with USSR
- Mikhail Gorbachev, comes to power 1985
- Glasnost, Perestroika
- Gorbachev's economic reforms weakened Communism
- Pursuit of detente, withdrawal from Afghanistan
- INF Treaty, destruction of medium range missiles
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