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Entitlement programs
Programs that provided guaranteed benefits to particular groups, was nearly 300 million annually
Who ran for president in 1964?
Senator Barry Goldwater
New Right
Groups across the country engaging to support and promote single issues that reflected their key interests, focused on controversial social issues, such as opposing abortion and blocking the Equal Rights amendment
Affirmative action
(new right did not like this) required employers and educational institutions to give special consideration to women, African Americans, and other minority groups even if they don’t have the qualifications for it.
Reverse discrimination
Was seen as a form of affirmative action, favoring one group over the other due to race or gender
Conservative coalition
An alliance of business leaders, middle class voters, disaffected Democrats, and fundamentalist Christian groups. Religion especially christianity helped this grow
Televangalists
Televangelists - Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson
Moral Majority
Jerry Falwell created the Moral Majority which consisted mostly of fundamentalists and evangelical christians who took the bible literally believing in absolute standards of right and wrong.
Ronald Reagan
Republican nominee for president that lost to Gerald Ford, four years later he got nominated against carter, he chose bush to run with him
Why did Reagan win against Carter?
Bad dealing with iranian hostage crisis, high levels of inflation, and the general weak economy
What did Reagan strive to do?
Lower taxes, traditional values, and less government.
Reaganomics
budget cuts, tax cuts, and increased defense spending
How did Regan downsize the government?
Cutting spending of social programs as well as deregulation.
Deregulation
Deregulation - the cutting back of federal regulation of industry. Removed price control from oil, eliminated federal health and safety inspections, deregulated airline industry and the savings and loan industries.
Supply-side economics
Supply-side economics - If people paid fewer taxes, they would save more money. Then banks could loan more money to businesses, which could invest their money in resources to improve productivity. Supply of goods would increase, driving prices down.
EPA
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) - Reagan cut the budget as another step for deregulation which has been established to fight pollution and conserve natural resources
Who were the voters that approved of Reagan’s policies?
Who were the voters that approved of Reagan’s policies?
Business people, Southerners, westerners, and Reagan Democrats who supported deregulation and less control in the government
1984 elections
Walter Mondale ran as the democratic nominee for elections and chose Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. The first woman on a major presidential ticket.
1988 Elections
Michael Dukakis ran against George Bush but many didn’t see a reason for change. Bush ran with the slogan no new taxes and a kindler and gentler nation even though his campaign supported many negative attack ads to his opponent.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev - General secretary of the communist party in the Soviet Union
Glasnost
Glasnost - means openness in russian, allowing open criticism of the Soviet government and took steps toward freedom of the press
Perestroika
Perestroika - a restructuring of Soviet society. He called for less government control of the economy, the introduction of some private enterprise, and steps toward establishing a democratic government.
INF Treaty
INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty) - signed on December 8, 1987. The treaty eliminated two classes of weapons systems in Europe and allowed each nation to make on-site inspections of the other’s military installations.
November 9, 1989
East Germany opened the Berlin Wall, allowing free passage between the two parts of the city for the first time in 28 years.
