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After Nixon (egypt got other countries to cute off US from oil because…

- - - - ronald raegan: rise of conservatives
        
        election of 1980 sparked a shift in the republican party
        
        christian conservatives/moral majority: voters who chose candidates based on social conservative policies
        
        landslide electoral college win
- - - - oil crisis strikes again. the iranian revolution made oil scarce
        
        long lines at gas station defined the era
        
        price for goods increased by 10%
        
        carter tries to restore confidence with patriotism but america wanted a solution not a scolding
- - - - iranian hostage crisis
        
        in the middle of the iranian revolution the american embassy was overrun
        
        52 americans held for 444 days, pairiaded and tortured around the streets
        
        a failed attepmt at military rescue led to further torture for the citizens
        
        in jan 1981 the hostages were released hours after reagan was inauguration
- - - - critics claim that only the wealthy benefited from these policies.
- - - - Important events in the age of reagan.
        
        spaceship challenger, blew up pasengers and teacher.
        
        iran contra affair: Reagan was lax with his cabinet who went behind his back and made a secret arms deal with the contra in iran
        
        war on drugs, AIDS epidemic ( reagan ignored the epidemic)
        
        Music; michael jackson, madonna, whitney houston.
        
        Fads: Pac-Man, cabbage patch kids
        
        Developments: Cable television, laptop computers, cellular phones