Why did the soviets lose the cold war?
- Invasion of Afghanistan
- Ignoring social concerns
- Spent everything on the military
Ronald Regan
- Was president when the cold war technically ended
- Regan-omics = republican economic stance. Less taxes, spend less, government stayed out of business
- Brought down the unemployment rate
- was the oldest president at the time
- Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion: Really slowed down the space program. This was the first mission in which a normal citizen was to go in to space. She was a school teacher named Christina McCollough
- Nancy Regan was big on stopping drug use. Started the "just say no" campaign.
George H. W. Bush
- Served as the Vice president of the United States under Ronald Regan
- Was a congressman from Texas
- Was an Ambassador for the US to the United Nations
- Director of the CIA
- Currently the oldest surviving former president
- Signed for an increase in taxes
- Became a millionaire in the oil business
- Was a one term president
- Americans disability act: Made it so their was no discrimination on people who had disability
- Clean air act: made it so that people needed to use cleaner burning fuels
- Berlin Wall came down during his presidency
- Election: Ran against Michael Dukakis. It was a relatively easy victory.
- Took Down Manuel Noriega
- Tried to help the Somali Civil War with the UNITAF
- NAFTA
Persian Gulf War
- August 1990- February 1991
- It started when Iraq invaded Kuwait under the direction of Sadam Husiane
- Iraq invade Kuwait in order to obtain oil, and in order to have more access to the gulf
- The United Nations ordered Iraq to pull out of Kuwait, but they refused
- The United Nations then sent thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia in order to stop an invasion from occurring there
- Operation Desert Sheild
- Operation Desert Storm
- We started a large bombing campaign in order to free Kuwait
- Negative: the infrastructure was extremely damaged
- The United nations put no fly zones in Iraq
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