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Chapter 40 outline 1980-1992

A: Reagan was elected for many reasons it seems. First off he was born in a generation that had its morals formed before the social upheaval of the 1960's and 70's which gave him the vote of the older half of America. Also him acting past gave him an advantage as he could charm a crowd and out wit his opposition! B: The American public was fed up with the old programs like the new deal and the great society. Reagan proposed that government is not the soclition to probemes, it is the problem, and afterwords dismembered the old economic ways in favor of raganism, a system of more money to buy more things C: Reagans recovery from the gun shot, and his speech after it, made the American public sympathetic towards the new president. Forgetting some of his mistakes, and instead focusing on how strong a man he must be. D Boll weevils was an American political term used in Reagans presidency to describe conservative Southern Democrats.

E: supply-side economics is the though thought that argues that economic growth
can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce goods and services, such as adjusting income tax and capital gains tax rates, and by allowing greater flexibility by reducing regulation.. F: His strategy was one of meet fire with fire. He wanted to beat the soviets in the arms race, because , only then he thought, would they listen to us. He also implemented plans for an SDI or strategic defense initiative, which would shoot missles in space before they hit us. G: Star wars entailed a system of lasers and missles that would shoot down incoming ICBM missiles from the soviets before they reached America. Experts feared it would force the soviets to launch a preemptive strike against us because the SDI was seen to them as a prelude to war. H: Because even after 200 marines were kill and he withdrew our troops from Palestine, he came away politically unharmed, hence the Teflon president. I:Glasnost gave new freedoms to the people, such as a greater freedom of information by opening up the censored literature in the libraries and a greater freedom of speech . Also Perestroika allowed more independent actions from the various ministries and introduced some market-like reforms.

J: Because in an earlier speech he had said that he did not sell arms to the iranians in exchange for hostages. K: Regonomics focused on getting more money to more people so that people could buy more goods, hence boosting the economy. L: the Courts decision made it more difficult to prove that an employer practice discrimination in hiring and made it easier for white males to argue that they were victims of reverse-discrimination.. M: These cases made a womans right to abortion a precedent. N: The Chinese massacred students having a pro-democracy demonstration. O: The affect of the ending cold war on Americas military spending was intimidate and thoroughly felt. Congress stoped research of lots of weapons and canceled orders of war planes and new navy ships. P: Oil fueled saddam's aggression, financially exhausted by its eight year war with iran, iraq needed kuwait's oil to pay its huge war bill. The U.N. Reacted by authorizing a counter attack led by the united states. Q: It was an act that protected the right of disabled americans.

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