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Chapter 26 THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION

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. Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power. Objectives:. What factors helped Ronald Reagan win the presidency in 1980?

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Chapter 26 THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION

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  1. 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

  2. Section 1: Reagan Comes to Power Objectives: • 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term Objectives: • 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. 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. Section 2: Reagan’s Second Term Failing confidence in the economy • huge federal deficits • illegal insider trading • stock market crash • S&L crisis

  10. 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. 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. Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s Objectives: • 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. 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. 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. Section 3: Bush and Life in the 1980s Persian Gulf War • 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. 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

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