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Marxist Sandinistas take over Nicaragua, get close w/Cuba and Soviets ... Yeltsin takes over Russia-Soviet Union disbanded. Republicans Remain-Bush I in 88 ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Reagan to Bush to Clinton


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Reagan to Bush to Clinton
  • Chapter 36

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Reagans TroublesNicaragua and El Salvador
  • Marxist Sandinistas take over Nicaragua, get
    close w/Cuba and Soviets
  • CIA arm rebels,Contras, to fight Sandinista
  • Also hoped to stop rebellion in El Salvador
  • CIA ran arms, planted mines w/Contras
  • 84 Congress cut off military aid to area
  • 86-U.S. sold arms to Iran, used to back
    contras, release hostages in Lebanon
  • Operation run by Lt. Oliver North, tried on TV,
    Presidential knowledge deniability

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1984 Reagan Wins 2nd Term
  • Dems had Mondale and Ferraro-1st female, Gary
    Hart (until affair revealed), and Jesse
    Jackson-1st black candidate
  • Puts conservative stamp on Supreme Ct Sandra Day
    OConnor-1st female on Ct, William Rehnquist,
    Antonin Scalia-1st Italian, Robert Bork (denied),
    Douglas Ginsburg (withdrew-pot smoking prof),
    Anthony Kennedy (approved)

4
Changes in Evil Empire (Soviet Union)
  • Brezhnev died 82, Andropov died 84, Chernenko
    died 85, Mikhail Gorbachev-new type of leader
  • Glasnost- more open society
  • Perestroika-restructuring of government
  • 86- Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 31 dead , up to
    500,000 c/die radiation next 70 yrs
  • Intermediate Nuclear Treaty (INF) signed

5
1989 Cold War EndsVelvet Revolution
  • Poland Soviets turn to outlawed Solidarity
    union to improve economy, vote, Lech Walesa, head
    of union is President AND Soviets dont
    interfere!
  • Hungary recognizes fallen hero from 1956 and
    takes down fence to Austria, East Germans fled to
    freedom thru Hungary
  • East German gates opened, wall comes down,
    Germany reunited 1990
  • Yeltsin takes over Russia-Soviet Union disbanded

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Republicans Remain-Bush I in 88
  • Tiananmen Square massacre 89
  • Saddam invades Kuwait 90
  • Operation Desert Storm is response 91
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