HIST 10613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Strategic Defense Initiative, Lech Wałęsa, Walter Mondale
1980's
Monday, April 23, 2018
11:19 AM
Election of 1980
Ronald Regan (R ) vs Jimmy Carter (D)
"Rawhide Down"
• Regan shot from a bullet ricosheing off of a car
"Reaganomics"
• 20 million new jobs created
• Inflation dropped form 13.5% in 1980 to 4.1% by 1988
• Unemployment falls
• Net worth of families increases
• Real gross national product rises
Reagan and the cold war
• He makes a famous speech
Allies:
o Margaret Thatcher
o Pope John Paul II
o Lech Walesa
Military Intervention
1983: Grendada
1956: Libya
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
• Called star wars
Election of 1984
Ronald Regan (R ) vs. Walter Mondale (D)
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