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Aim: How did Ronald Reagan deal with foreign and domestic issues?

Aim: How did Ronald Reagan deal with foreign and domestic issues?. Do Now: Define Domestic Policy HW: 981 #1, study for quiz. Review for quiz. Reason for US involvement in Vietnam – contain communism

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Aim: How did Ronald Reagan deal with foreign and domestic issues?

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  1. Aim: How did Ronald Reagan deal with foreign and domestic issues? Do Now: Define Domestic Policy HW: 981 #1, study for quiz

  2. Review for quiz • Reason for US involvement in Vietnam – contain communism • War Powers Act – limit the ability of a president to send in troops without approval from Congress • Cuban Missile Crisis – closest we came to Nuclear War – Soviets had placed missiles in Cuba.

  3. Effect of Watergate – President is not above the law, checks and balances work and people lost trust in government • Camp David – Carter tried to bring peace to the Middle East • Détente – easing of tensions between US and Soviets • Great Society – LBJ – help society through social reform

  4. Presidency of Ford – never elected by the American people • Reaganomics – Supply side economics

  5. Ronald Reagan • 40th President • Term: 1980- 1988 • Republican

  6. What were Reagan’s views on the economy? • Businesses and local governments were better able to solve problems on their own – rather than the federal government.

  7. How did Reagan plan to build the economy? • Supply-side economics – Reaganomics • Cutting taxes on businesses and the wealthy. This would result in more spending.

  8. Reagan’s Tax Plan 1. Lower tax rates. 2. Businesses & consumers have more $ to spend 4. More people working & paying taxes 3. Greater Production

  9. How did Reagan’s programs affect the national debt? • It increased – he reduced social welfare programs .

  10. What were Reagan’s foreign policy goals? • He believed that the U.S. should act as the world’s defender of freedom and democracy.

  11. What is the Reagan Doctrine? • The U.S. would go beyond trying to stop communism from spreading. • Give aid to anti-communist rebels.

  12. Intervention in Central America • El Salvador: Reagan sent arms and military advisors to El Salvador to back anti-Communist forcers in a civil war. He also pressured the government to hold democratic elections. • Nicaragua – 1979 Marxist guerillas – Sandinistas overthrew their anti-Communist dictator. Reagan approved aid to the Contras who were rebels seeking to oust the Sandinistas. • Grenada – 1983- a rebellion on the Caribbean island of Grenada raised fears that it might become Communist. Reagan ordered a surprise US invasion.

  13. What is terrorism? • The use of bombings, assassinations or kidnappings by groups to get revenge or publicity for their views or cause.

  14. How did Reagan deal with terrorism? • He did not want to give into the demands of terrorists. • But he did not want the terrorists to take innocent lives. • Ordered the bombing of Libya in response to terrorist actions.

  15. What was the Iran-Contra affair? • 1986 – Administration secretly sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages in Lebanon. • Use the money to aid “Contras” fighting a Communist Government in Nicaragua.

  16. How did Reagan help to thaw the cold war? • Considered the Soviet Union dangerous to the U.S. • Approved “Star Wars” defense system. • 1987 – US and Soviet Union reduced short range and medium range missiles. • Reagan Berlin Wall

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