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This movement embraced morality, conservative economics and politics.
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Congress approved President Reagan's tax cuts.
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Air Traffic Controller strike for better pay and working conditions. President Reagan orders strikers to return to work but they refuse and are fired two days after the strike began.
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IBM releases its first personal computer.
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O'Connor who was nominated by President Reagan became the first female Supreme Court justice.
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Cable New Network is launched.
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An inadequate number of votes leads to the Equal Rights Amendment not being passed.
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Funds going to contras in Nicaragua are banned by the House of Representatives.
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President Reagan announces plans for an Advanced Defense System to protect America from Soviet Missiles.
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President Regan sends US Marines to overthrow Grenada's leftist government.
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Musicians created a fundraiser for farmers who were suffering from high interest rates and soaring foreclosures.
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NASA Challenger 7 Explodes.
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Tax rates are reduced and the tax code is simplified.
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Employers were required to verify legal status and the law made it illegal to hire undocumented workers.
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Arms sales to Nicaraguan contras were discovered resulting in an investigation of White House officials.
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President Reagan challenges Soviet Union Gorbachev to remove the Berlin Wall.
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The stock market plunges nearly 800 points which was the worst decline in Wall Street history..
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The treaty was the first of many arms-reducing treaties between America and the Soviet Union
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Savings and Loan companies are prevented from going out of business.
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A Military operation led by American forces to drive Iraqis out of Kuwait.
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President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Gorbachev agree to reduce nuclear arms competition between the two rivals.
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Soviet Union collapses.
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Bad times were ahead...
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A bomb detonated in the World Trade Center's basement as a result of terrorism.
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The largest free trade agreement is established between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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President Clinton and Congress come to a standoff over the budget which results in a partial shutdown of the United States government.
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U.S. transfers ownership of the canal to Panama.
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