The Reagan Revolution

Question 1

1980

Answer 1

• reagan vs. carter (current president)
• reagan: “are you better off than you were four years ago?”
• reagan offers hope to America
• Reagan is big on “image” - former actor who looked good on TV

Question 2

iran hostage crisis

Answer 2

• americans taken hostage in iran in 1979
• iran became upset with jimmy carter
• iran state it would not release the hostages until carter was out of office
• the DAY reagan enters office - the hostages are freed
• becomes a symbol of the reagan era

Question 3

reaganomics

Answer 3

• plan to fix the sputtering economy (stagflation)
• massive tax cuts to the rich
• rich were then to expand businesses and create jobs
• jobs go to the middle and lower classes
• new jobs - new income tax for the government
• the economy will fix itself (theory)
• trickle-down

Question 4

SDI

Answer 4

• “star wars”
• missile defense system
• satellites in space would shoot down enemy missiles with a laser
• trillions spent on this program
• NEVER WORKS (we do not have this)

Question 5

moral majority

Answer 5

• the nation must get back to good morals (do the right thing)
• “just say no” program against drug use
• get the nation back to right and wrong - and knowing the difference
• Christian push in the US in the 1980s

Question 6

iran/contra scandal - reagan’s scandal

Answer 6

• US sells weapons to iran (illegal) to arrange the release of other American hostages taken in the middle east
• US takes the money from the illegal sales of weapons to iran and sends it to the contras in nicaragua (also illegal)
• contras were “freedom fighters” in nicaragua
• reagan first denies knowledge (lies)
• reagan later apologizes - and is forgiven by the american people
• reagan survives the scandal - american people like him (as opposed to richard nixon in 1974, who quit)

Question 7

remember this…

Answer 7

ronald reagan was a former actor-turned-president. in today’s world, would our nation elect an actor again? what would lead america to put its faith in someone who can act like another person?

Question 8

key to reagan’s popularity

Answer 8

image

Question 9

reagan administration issued a war on

Answer 9

drugs

Question 10

moral majority in the 1980s was rooted deep in

Answer 10

religion