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| CHAPTER 36 | A CONSERVATIVE INSURGENCY | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1966 |
Ronald Reagan elected governor of California |
| 1973 |
Roe v. Wade |
| 1981–1989 |
Reagan presidency |
| 1981 |
Economic Recovery Tax Act |
| 1981 |
Air traffic controllers’ strike |
| October 1983 |
Invasion of Grenada |
| September 1986 |
Tax Reform Act |
| October 1987 |
Stock market plunge |
| December 1987 |
INF Treaty |
| 1988 |
George H. W. Bush elected president |
| June 1989 |
Tiananmen Square demonstration |
| November 1989 |
Berlin Wall came down |
| December 1989 |
Invasion of Panama |
| August 1990 |
Iraq invaded Kuwait |
| January–February 1991 |
Operation Desert Storm |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Account for the popular appeal of Ronald Reagan.
- Evaluate Ronald Reagan’s economic policies.
- Understand why commentators perceived the Reagan-Bush years as selfinterested
and greedy.
- Analyze the U.S. role in Central America in the 1980s.
- Assess the Iran-Contra affair.
- Explain the economic difficulties of the Reagan-Bush era.
- Describe the decline of communism in Europe in the late 1980s.
- Discuss the causes and events of the Gulf War.
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