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1 The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World Reagan s Domestic Revolution What was revolutionary about Ronald Reagan s presidency? The Climax of the Cold War How and why did the Cold War come to an end? Growth in the Sunbelt How did growth in the Sunbelt shape national politics in the 1980s and 1990s? The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World Values in Collision What key social and cultural issues divided Americans in the 1980s and 1990s? Ending the Cold War: The Comeback of the Cold Warriors Republican America The Cold War: Where Did the Enemy Go? Reagan s Domestic Revolution Reagan s Majority Conservative Worldviews Reaganomics: Deficits and Deregulation Crisis for Organized Labor An Acquisitive Society Mass Media and Fragmented Culture Poverty amid Prosperity Consolidating the Revolution: George H. W. Bush Reagan s Majority Resistance to regulation 1

2 Resistance to regulation Reaction to culture of the 1960s and 1970s Democrats lost some blue-collar workers Reagan won with 98 percent of electoral votes Conservative Worldviews Downsizing the Great Society Free-market utopians Neoconservatives Conservative political savvy Think tanks Reaganomics: Deficits and Deregulation Economic Recovery and Tax Act of 1981 (ERTA) Income taxes slashed Deregulation Environmental regulation and federal lands James Watt Sagebrush Rebellion Deregulation of banking Crisis for Organized Labor Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization Decline of union membership and blue-collar jobs Impact of economic restructuring Explore the Reagan Revolution on MyHistoryLab An Acquisitive Society Yuppies Celebrity rich Economic polarization Music 2

3 Music Punk Hip-hop Rap 15 Mass Media and Fragmented Culture Cable Cable News Network (CNN) Shift from television networks Targeted audiences Poverty amid Prosperity Poorest fifth s income declined but taxes rose Average wages fell in terms of purchasing power Corporate downsizing and white-collar jobs Increase in the poverty rate The wage gap and the feminization of poverty Homelessness in America Deinstitutionalizing the mentally ill Consolidating the Revolution: George H. W. Bush War on crime and drugs Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) Growth of national debt Rodney King riot Racial tensions Poverty The Climax of the Cold War Confronting the Soviet Union 3

4 Confronting the Soviet Union Risky Business: Foreign Policy Adventures Embracing Perestroika Crisis and Democracy in Eastern Europe The Persian Gulf War Confronting the Soviet Union Evil empire Central Europe Missiles deployed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Risky Business: Foreign Policy Adventures Reagan Doctrine Intervention and covert activities in Central America Nicaraguan Contras The war against drugs Manuel Noriega Panama Intervention in the Middle East Iran-Contra affair U.S. policy in Asia Embracing Perestroika Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost Perestroika Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty Crisis and Democracy in Eastern Europe The end of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe Poland 1989 End of Warsaw Pact and COMECON German reunification and the dissolution of the Soviet Union The Persian Gulf War 4

5 Iraq seized Kuwait Persian Gulf War Operation Desert Storm Growth in the Sunbelt The Defense Economy Americans from around the World Old Gateways and New Growth in the Sunbelt Defense industries and bases moved to Sunbelt Companies moved south General Motors The Defense Economy Vietnam and after University work funded by defense budgets Silicon Valley NASA centers Americans from Around the World Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Helped stimulate the Sunbelt boom Legal immigration quadrupled Mexican immigrants Asians Nearly half of immigrants in Old Gateways and New New gateway cities Los Angeles 5

6 Los Angeles Miami El Paso Maquila factories Values in Collision Women s Rights and Public Policy AIDS and Gay Activism Churches in Change Culture Wars Women s Rights and Public Policy Abortion rights and conservative reaction Roe v. Wade 1973 Women in the workforce Part of shift to service jobs AIDS and Gay Activism Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) More acceptance of gay sexuality Gays in the military Churches in Change Religion key in many Americans lives Protestant denominations Evangelical churches grew Televangelists Catholicism Buddhism Islam

7 46 47 Culture Wars Issues Interpretation of the Bible Marriage Homosexuality Reproductive rights Conclusion Americans sought stability in the 1980s, but the decade witnessed transformations that redirected American life. Many of the changes were connected to national policy issues. The collapse of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War. Prosperity alternated with recession and shifted the balance between regions. 7

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