HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 58: Iran Hostage Crisis, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship, The New Jim Crow
11 Apr 2016
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Morning in american and a post cold war world hist221 lecture notes. Fracture and polarizaion, 1970s: economy, energy, culture, iranian hostage crisis. Ascendency of new right: subsidized home ownership, low taxes, de facto segregaion even though integraion is being fought for. Cold war: new direcions and unraveling: responses to globalizaion, regan, the end of the cold war. Ronald reagan from washed up actor to great conservaive hope. Involved in union acivism, started let but moved rightward: governor of california. Rr: hollywood charisma, opposiion to welfare state, federal tax cuts, defense build up, improving the misery index . Idea that the us needs to get out of many of these social programs. Trickle down: tax cuts for the rich will help simulate the economy. 5 minutes ater reagan"s inauguraion, the hostages are set free: unfreezing assets, iran needs weapons and internaional sancions lited, increasingly willing to negoiate with us based on money that was frozen.
