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Reagan in Power. Roosevelt coalition continues to splinter Vietnam Civil Rights (Democrats lose Deep South) Republican party picks up pieces. THE REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE, 1980-1992. America: Past and Present Chapter 32. The Reagan Victory 1980. Carter’s negatives Iranian hostage crisis - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Reagan in PowerReagan in Power
• Roosevelt coalition continues to splinter• Vietnam• Civil Rights (Democrats lose Deep South)
• Republican party picks up pieces
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THE REPUBLICAN THE REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE, 1980-1992RESURGENCE, 1980-1992
America: Past and Present
Chapter 32
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The Reagan Victory The Reagan Victory 19801980
• Carter’s negatives• Iranian hostage crisis• economic ills
• Reagan’s positives win the election• warm telegenic personality• optimistic message• draws Jewish, working class vote
• Republicans win majority in the Senate
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Cutting Spending and Cutting Spending and TaxesTaxes
• Reagan’s premise: cut spending to encourage private investment
• Reagan cuts over three years• federal spending by more than $40 billion• social services included in cuts • taxes cut by 25%
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Limiting the Role of Limiting the Role of GovernmentGovernment
• Environmental regulations relaxed
• Attempted cuts in Social Security
• Neglect of interest-group opponents• labor hurt in air traffic control firings• lack of support for civil rights legislation• women ignored in judicial appointments
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ReaganomicsReaganomics
• Reagan’s reductions in spending and taxes prompt conflicting expectations
• Supply-side economists expect economic growth
• Reagan’s critics expect massive deficits, economic stagnation
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Recession and Recession and RecoveryRecovery
• 1981-1982--unemployment hits 10%
• 1983--economic recovery• rise in consumer spending • prices remain level• worldwide decline in energy prices
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The Growing DeficitThe Growing Deficit
• Basis for the Reagan hopes for prosperity includes• massive deficit spending • massive inflows of foreign investment
• 1983--federal budget deficit $200 billion
• Spending caps on defense, services
• 1985--U.S. becomes a debtor nation
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U.S. Budget Deficits, U.S. Budget Deficits, 1980-19971980-1997
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The Rich Grow RicherThe Rich Grow Richer• Gains of Reaganomics
• inflation reduced to 4%• employment grows after 1982• growth in service sector jobs Losses of
Reaganomics• high-paying manufacturing jobs decline• increasing social inequality
• wealthy benefit• poor left in poverty• middle class hurt
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Share of Aggregate Share of Aggregate Household Income by Household Income by Quintiles, 1975-1995Quintiles, 1975-1995
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Reagan AffirmedReagan Affirmed
• Perception of improving economy
• 1984 election• Reagan trounces Walter Mondale• Republicans lose seats in Congress
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Reagan and the WorldReagan and the World
• Reagan determined to restore America's international position
• Steep increase in military spending
• Aggressive foreign policy
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Challenging the "Evil Challenging the "Evil Empire"Empire"
• Reagan: Soviet Union the "focus of evil in the modern world"
• Unfavorable deals on arms reductions
• U.S. response to Russian refusal• deployment of cruise missiles in Europe• development of anti-missile system
• SDI – Strategic Defense Initiative - “Star Wars”
• Russians build up nuclear arsenal
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Turmoil in the Middle Turmoil in the Middle EastEast
• 1982--Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• International response• U.S., France send troops to maintain order • PLO evacuates Beirut
• 1984--200 U.S. Marines killed in terrorist bombing in Beirut
• U.S. evacuation of Lebanon
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Trouble Spots in the Trouble Spots in the Middle EastMiddle East
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Confrontation in Confrontation in Central AmericaCentral America
• Intervention against Latin American leftist insurgents
• Covert subversion of Sandinistas
• October, 1983--invasion of Grenada
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Trouble Spots in Central Trouble Spots in Central America and the America and the
CaribbeanCaribbean
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Trading Arms for Trading Arms for HostagesHostages
• Advanced weapons sold to Iran for influence in freeing American hostages
• November, 1986--Iran-Contra scandal• profit from Iran arms sales to Contras• funding violates Congressional prohibition
against trading with Iran!!• Reagan escapes impeachment• Col. Oliver North takes “the heat”
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Reagan the Reagan the PeacemakerPeacemaker
• 1985--Mikhail Gorbachev assumes power in Russia
• 1985-88--Reagan-Gorbachev summits• 1987--destroy intermediate range missiles• 1988--Afghanistan evacuated
• Foreign policy triumphs restore Reagan’s popularity
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Social DilemmasSocial Dilemmas
• AIDS epidemic
• Drug abuse
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The AIDS EpidemicThe AIDS Epidemic
• 1981--AIDS first detected • apparent confinement to homosexual men
results in early public inaction • spread to drug users, recipients of blood
transfusions prompts panic
• Reagan Administration’s response• fund research• little funding for education, prevention• 1987--appointment of AIDS commissioner
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The AIDS Epidemic (2)The AIDS Epidemic (2)
• 1996--500,000 infected• majority homosexuals, drug users• 15% heterosexual, non-drug abusers
• 1996--AIDS death rate begins dropping • new drugs• safer sexual practices
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The War on DrugsThe War on Drugs• Mid-1980's--crack cocaine introduced
• addiction spread through all classes• exploding crime rate
• Reagan attempts interdiction of supply
• (H.W.Bush , Clinton continue Reagan policy)
• At the end of the century there seemed to be no end to the war on drugs
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The Changing Palace The Changing Palace GuardGuard
• 1985--Donald Regan chief of staff
• Second-term victories• tax reform package• appointment of conservatives
• Changes in the Supreme Court• Senate blocks Bork appointment to Court• Bush appointments help turn the Court
more to the right
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Passing the Torch to Bush Passing the Torch to Bush (H.W.)(H.W.)
• Republicans hope for major political realignment
• Factors reinforcing trend• 1980s economic boom• promise of the end of the Cold War
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The Election of 1988The Election of 1988
• Republican George Bush
• Democrat Michael Dukakis
• Bush television ads attack Dukakis as soft on crime, unpatriotic
• Bush wins White House
• Republicans lose seats in Congress
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Bush’s Domestic Bush’s Domestic AgendaAgenda
• Problems of 1989• savings and loan industry facing collapse• ballooning federal deficit
• Bush’s deficit reductionBush’s deficit reduction• raise taxes (had promised otherwise)raise taxes (had promised otherwise)• cut military expenditurescut military expenditures
• Economic recession increases deficit
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The End of the Cold The End of the Cold WarWar
• June, 1989--Tiananmen Square
• November, 1989--Berlin Wall torn down
• 1991-1992--U.S.S.R. dissolved, Communist Party outlawed in Russian Republic
• Cautious response by Bush
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The End of the Cold The End of the Cold WarWar
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Waging PeaceWaging Peace
• 1989--U.S. invasion of Panama
• August, 1990--Iraq occupies Kuwait
• January, 1991--Operation Desert Storm
• Outcome of Desert Storm • February 24--Iraqi force collapses• Bush’s approval hits 90%
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Republican Economic Republican Economic WoesWoes
• 1990 budget deal violated Bush’s “no new taxes” pledge
• Also failed to reduce budget deficits
• Economic recession prolonged
• One term president…relatively unknown Gov. of Arkansas, William Jefferson Clinton will win in 1992.