Transcript 1980s thru 2000s Powerpoint

TAKS 80’S, 90’S
& 2000’S
TAKS
1980’S
RONALD REAGAN
1980-88
ECONOMY
TRICKLE DOWN
ECONOMICS
Reagan Assassination Attempt
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR
FIRST WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT
1981
AIDS 1981
IBM PERSONAL COMPUTERS
1981
INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING
STAR WARS PLAN 1983
FIRST FEMALE INTO SPACE
SALLY RIDE 1983
HOLE IN THE OZONE
1985
CHALLENGER EXPLODES
1986
CHERNOBYL INCIDENT IN
RUSSIA 1986
Chernobyl Children
Chernobyl Children
IRAN-CONTRA SCANDAL
1986
Iran Contra Scandal
• The Iran–Contra
affair), also referred to
as Irangate,
Contragate or the IranContra scandal, was a
political scandal in the
United States that
came to light in
November 1986.
Iran contra Scandal
During the Reagan administration, senior
administration officials secretly facilitated the sale
of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.[1]
Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms
sales would secure the release of hostages and
allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the
Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland
Amendment, further
Iran contra Scandal
funding of the Contras by the government had
been prohibited by Congress.
The scandal began as an operation to free
seven American hostages being held by a
group with Iranian ties connected to the Army
of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. It
was planned that Israel would ship weapons to
Iran, and then the United States would
resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment
Iran contra Scandal
. The Iranian recipients promised to do
everything in their power to achieve the
release of the U.S. hostages. The plan
deteriorated into an arms-for-hostages
scheme, in which members of the executive
branch sold weapons to Iran in exchange
for the release of the American
hostages.[2][3] Large modifications to the
plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel.[
Iran contra Scandal
Oliver North of the National Security
Council in late 1985, in which a portion
of the proceeds from the weapon sales
was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and
anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in
Nicaragua
RUSSIAN MIR STATION
1986
BERLIN WALL FALLS
1989
GEORGE BUSH
1988-92
EXXON VALDEZ SPILL
1989
CHINA’S TIANAMEN SQUARE
STUDENT REVOLUTION 1989
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(SALT) 1969-1986
refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding
international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet
Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament
control. There were two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I
and SALT II.
Negotiations commenced in Helsinki, Finland, in November
1969.[1] SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an
interim agreement between the two powers. Although SALT II
resulted in an agreement in 1979, the United States chose not to
ratify the treaty in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,
which took place later that year. The US eventually withdrew from
SALT II in 1986.
TAKS
1990’S
BUSH REIGN
• ECONOMY
STRUGGLES
• UNEMPLOYMENT
GOES UP
The treaties then led to START (Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty)
This consisted of START I (a 1991 agreement
between the United States, the Soviet Union) and
START II (a 1993 agreement between the United
States and Russia). These placed specific caps
on each side's number of nuclear weapons.
PERSIAN GULF WAR
1990-91
BILL CLINTON
1992-2000
CLINTON REIGN
• ECONOMY BOOMS
• SCANDALS
• WHITEWATER AND
LEWINSKY
• IMPEACHED
• NAFTA
TAKS?
2000’S
GEORGE W. BUSH
2000 - 2008
9/11
Reaction to 911
• Homeland Security Act
• Patriot Act
IRAQI FREEDOM
2003
Real Estate and Economic crisis
• Extended recession
• Stockmarket failure
Barrack Obama
• First African American
President
• 2008 – to present
• Economic Crisis