Ronald Reagan
- Born on Feb 6 1911
- HE went to college and played football
- Radio announcer in Davenport, Iowa
- Iowa Hawkeye Home Game announcer
- Contract in Hollywood and was a actor
- Married twice and had four kids
- Governor of California
- Ran against Ford, but lost
Election
- 1984, Walter Manwale
- another blow out
- People liked him
Assassination
- March 30th, John Hinckely shot at the President to impress Jody Foster
- John Hinckley stalked Jody and went to the same
- Innocent because of insanity, he had a mental diease, if someone famous loves you, you have to do something to make them notice
- 2 months after he took office
- Reagan survived
- Hickley will never be released,
Accomplishment
- lowered taxes
- reduction of nucular weapons
- during second term he try to end the Cold War
End of Cold War
- opposed Detente, if we keep it how will we every get over the war
- He believed he stood for the end of war and end of communist
- He started to support anti- communist all around the world
- we went into massive debt because of military cost.
- Missile Defense System- if someone send a missile our way, we send a dumby missile to defeat the missile
- Reagan and Gorbachev- had many meetings to help end the war,
Reason we won
- we had every lose Allies, they didn't
- China started siding with us after 1972
- The Soviet economy was in shambles whereas the US's was flourishing
1. Huge deficit
2. High inflation
3. Corruption
4. Social problems
5. Shortage of basic needs
- The strong anti-communist presidency of Reagan
- Gorbachev's willingness to change and reform
1. glasnost and peresrtokia
2. admitted Soviet mistakes
3. took blame for Cold WAr
4. communist system had failed
5. alllowed Eastern Europe to do what they wanted
- Arms Reductions Talks
1. SALT, INF, Reagan and Gorbechev meetings
- Soviet Mistakes
1. Invasion of Afaghanstian
2. Igroning social cocerns
3. spent everything on miltary
- Challenger explosion- a teacher was on when the rocket took over and exploded
- War on Drugs- started in 1982 due to crack, Nancy Reagan started the "Just say no"
- Iran Contra Scandal- 1986, US used the $$ from serect weapons sales to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua which had outlawe, the goal was to free the people, Oliver North was the guy who took the blame
George H. W. Bush-1989-1993
Background
- George Hubert Walker Bush is his full name
- He went to Yale
- Vice President of Reagan
- He married Barbara Bush, still alive
- Had six kids
- More to Texas to get a job at the oil company and became really rich
- Was an ambassador of the US to the Untied Nations
- Congressman for Texas
Elections
- 1988 election - Micheal DuCucas,
- Blow out
- Micheal wanted to follow Reagan footsteps
Accomplishments
- Invaded Panama, because of international drug
- Big oil spill in Alaska
- Soviet Union fell apart
- Berlin Wall cam down
- He promised to lower taxes but then he raised them
- He signed NAFTA- American Free Trade
- Perisan Gulf War- August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, Sudan WhoSan gassed his people, Iraq invaded Kuwait because they had problems with oil and land, Coalition Force including us were sent to Saudi Arabia, we sent a day in January if he wasn't out we would attack, we bombed Iraq then invaded, within a month we won. US- 482 dead and Iraq 20,000-35,000 die,
After wards- No fly zone, every single day we would fly over the areas Sudan didnt like. Weapons inpectors would make sure that Iraq was not making weapons only energy, Sudan would tell them when and where they could we inspect, then he would also kick them out. We went back to war cause Bush thought they had weapons so we went back to war.
Lead to 911-
- we started bombing them endless, which lead to them hating us and terrorist attacks
Bill Clinton
Background
William Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19,1946 to William Jefferson Blythe II and Virginia Dell Cassidy. Both of his parents jobs caused them to travel, so Bill was left with his grandparents. His parents were split when he was a young kid. Later on Bill's mother quiet her job and moved back. Bill's mom went a man named Roger Clinton Sr, who she later married. Roger owned a dealership in Arkansas, so the family moved there.
Bill received many scholarships and was able to attend Georgetown University. Clinton received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1973 and became Arkansas Governor and also was involved in Chair of the National Governor Association.
Bill married Hilary Rodham Clinton, who he met when he was campaigning for Senate. Bill and Hilary got married on October 11, 1975. They had one daughter Chelsea Victoria, who was born on February 27,
Elections
1992 - 370 vs George Bush vs. Ross Perot won
1996 - 379 elector votes vs Bob Dole vs. Perot. 49.2 % won
Accomplishments and Failures:
- Did drugs a time or two
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