The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

scene from the beginning of the movie, the Ark be- ing shelved and locked away secretly by the Ameri- can government, and the cl ...

Further Reading Eberwein, Robert.The War Film.New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Jeffords, Susan.Hard Bodies: ...

been predominantly the case in the 1970’s, when the movement first developed. Impact The 1980’s was a time of great social chang ...

Joseph McCarthy. Perhaps influenced by Murrow, Rather resembled him in many ways. Both were ded- icated to the primacy and integ ...

problems afflicting the youth of many nations. She was also active in the National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth (la ...

She denies that she directly influenced his decisions, but the two certainly discussed many crucial issues. The First Lady oppos ...

Candidate Reagan By the 1980 election cycle, the American voters had lost patience with the Demo- cratic administration’s inabil ...

istration. In late summer of 1981, the administration was successful in having moderate conservative San- dra Day O’Connor appoi ...

The Middle East also preoccupied Reagan during his first term. He announced the Fresh Start initia- tive to aid the Israeli peac ...

Gorbachev. Justifiably or not, he will be remem- bered for presiding over the end of the Cold War era and for defending traditio ...

were also shot. Secret Service agent Timothy McCar- thy jumped in front of the president, taking a bullet to the abdomen. He was ...

control laws were inspired by Brady. In 1993, Presi- dent Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Vio- lence Prevention Act, also ...

See also Elections in the United States, 1980; Elec- tions in the United States, 1984; Reagan, Ronald; Reagan Revolution; Reagan ...

Reagan Revolution The Event A new set of federal priorities and initiatives inspired by conservative and neoconservative princ ...

overwhelming economic problems that had been growing for almost two decades. These problems re- sulted in towering inflation, in ...

Related to this tax cut was the second element of his proposal, that of substantially reducing federal oversight of corporations ...

that this imbalance had to be eliminated, Reagan turned a deaf ear to those who recommended that he attempt to balance the budge ...

Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech The Event President Ronald Reagan identifies the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” Author Ronald ...

America’s military expansion but lacked the funds to do so. Mikhail Gorbachev, after he was elected as Gen- eral Secretary of th ...

Recessions Definition Sustained declines in economic activity lasting six months or longer The recessions of the early 1980’s ...