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Chapter 31 - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 31
Government
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After Barry Goldwater lost Richard Viguerie took a list of 12,000 contributors and made them into an organization. This helped fund the group and lead them to become people with influence.
The new right recognized that people didn't like to pay taxes and the recent tax revolt showed that. They used this dislike to gain popularity.
Iraq had wanted to annex Kuwait so Bush got the help of almost every nation in the world to embargo Iraq.
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Supply-side economics or Reaganomics was a policy designed to lower the federal budget. It would do this by decreasing taxes and spending more on corporations and wealthy individuals as to help the nation in the long run.
Reagan had the deregulation of many regulations like the Justice Department easing civil rights laws.
A greater government defecit could have been caused by an increasing aging population and things like medicaid etc... were getting more subjects.
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) would involve lasers and satellites nullifying nuclear missles this was not used because the Soviet Union wanted no lasers as part of the agreement.
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The Reagan doctrine involved supporting anyone that didn't like the Soviet Union whether they were connected with the Soviet Union or not.
Isreali forces wanted to remove palestinians and the Americans came over to watch over them. But they would become target for bombing and 241 lives were lost.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was a rising political leader in Russia and saught to reform the Soviet Union with his Glasnost and perestroika plans
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Gorbachev began retracting Soviet Union forces around the world after he saw that the nation was not fit to sustain those positions.
Students in China wanted to spread democracy but hard-liners murdered them in Tiananmen Square to which an unknown number of demonstrators were killed.
African National Congress was let do their thing because strict apartheid laws were beginning to become less strict.
The leader of the ANC Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in jail and in 1994 became president of South Africa.
The Soviet Union and the Communist Party both fell apart after a coup lead by hard liners took down the Soviet Union. This left Gorbachev powerless.
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U.S. gave money weapons to Iran to free American hostages, but the money supposed to be given could have been funneld and sold to Nicaragua.
more reporting and research was done which exposed a pattern of illegal activities oversought by Reagan which lowered his popularity.
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Social
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The SAGEBUSH REBELLION wanted to free the West from "government control" and didn't really like environmental laws and restrictions on development.
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Religion
Evangelicalism becomes more popular believed in personal convention or "being born again" and had leaders like Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.
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