THE RESURGENCE OF CONSERVATISM Chapter 39Chapter 391980-1992.
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RESURGENCE OF CONSERVATISM
Chapter 22
SOCIAL CONCERNS IN THE 1980S
Health, Education and Cities in Crisis
One of the most troubling issues was AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Ways to contract the disease Transfer of bodily
fluids Sharing needles unsafe sex Blood transfusions
AIDS Why was Earvin
Johnson (Magic Johnson) important to AIDS?
Famous NBA basketball player contracted HIV and became the face of Aids awareness
Abortion Had been legal
since 1973 Pro-Life movement
grew throughout the 1980s
Drug Abuse Reagan
Administration launched a war on drugs
Supported moves to prosecute users as well as dealers
“Just Say No” campaign – Nancy Reagan
Drunk Driving Mothers Against
Drunk Driving (MADD)
Founded to stop underage drinking and driving
Education American students
lagged behind students of industrialized nations
23 million could not fill out a job application
What were some of the proposed solutions?
More homework, longer school days and longer school year
The Urban Crisis Crisis in education
closely connected to crisis in the cities
1970s the US became increasingly suburbanized
More families responded to lure of the suburbs
Poor people and racial minorities left in the cities
Divided into wealth and poor neighborhoods
The Urban Crisis Police raided
nightclub because of sexual orientation
Led to an uprising of gays and lesbians
Gay Liberation Front organized
What was the name of the riot?
1969 Stonewall Riot
FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE COLD WAR
The Cold War Ends March 1985 Mikhail
Gorbachev became the secretary of the Communist party in the Soviet Union
Ushered in new era in the USSR
Gorbachev Initiates Reform
He allowed open criticism of the government and reforms
Glasnost= openness in discussing social problems
Perestroika= Restructuring of Russian Economy
Gorbachev Initiates Reform
As Reagan built up US military
Gorbachev knew the USSR could not keep up
Offered to reduce the Soviet military
INF treaty 1987 began the reduction of weapon systems
The Soviet Union Declines Gorbachev introduced
democratic ideals and the Soviet military became less feared
Many Soviet republics declared their independence
Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president Boris Yeltsin took over
When did Yeltsin and Busch declare the Cold War was over?
February 1987
The Collapse of the Communist Regime
Impoverished Soviet Union could not support unpopular regimes in Eastern European satellite nations
November 9, 1989 East Germany opened the Berlin Wall
Allowed free passage for the first time in 28 years
The Collapse of Communist Regimes
Which Soviet satellite, when freed, had a lot of ethnic problems?
Yugoslavia
Communism Continues in China Early 1980s reform
began in China Communist
government loosened grip on business
Eliminated some price controls
Communism Continues in China In April 1989,
university students hold pro-democracy marches in Beijing's Tiananmen Square
How did the government react to this? The Chinese
government ordered the military to crush the protestors
Central America and the Caribbean Policy
US opposed socialists government in these regions
Nicaragua Between 1977-79 there
was a civil war US supported Somaza
government and the Sandinistas (communist backed) won
Reagan supported the Contras to overthrow the Sandinista government
Grenada Reagan sent 2000
US troops to overthrow pro-Cuban government
Also protect US students on the island (big success)
Panama 1989 President
Bush sent 20,000 soldiers and marines to overthrow and arrest General Manuel Noriega
Why? Noreiga was
helping drug smugglers get illegal drugs into the US
Middle East Trouble Spots The Iran-Contra Scandal 1983 terrorists groups
loyal to Iran took a number of US hostages in Lebanon
Reagan said he would never deal with terrorists
What were the three parts of the scandal? Sales to Iran Iran get US hostages
freed Money from sale to the
Contras
Middle East Trouble Spots Summer of 1987
special committee of both houses of Congress conducts an inquiry
Colonel Oliver North (member of national Security Council) give testimony, but not against Reagan
Persian Gulf War August 2, 1990 Iraqi
troops invade Kuwait and threaten Saudi Arabia
With support of Congress President Bush launched Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait
There was a six week air war followed by a 100 hour ground war
Bush’s Domestic Policy Despite great
achievements inn the Persian Gulf, Bush not successful on home front
Billionaire from Texas ran as an independent, stressed need to end deficit spending H. Ross Perot
Bush’s Domestic Policy What two chances
hurt his chances for reelection? Economic
Recession Broken promise of
not raising taxes
Election of 1992 Bill Clinton wins the
election with 43% of the vote and Democrats keep control of Congress
Bush 37%, Ross Perot 19%, most since 1912
First president born after World War II
First person of the Baby Boom generation
His task to revive the economy and guide US in rapidly changing world