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OPEC
The Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in 1960. They were considerec to an example of a cartel, but never declared illegal. They placed an embargo on oil sales to the US ni 1973 to punish the US for its support of Israel. <a href="http://www.heatingoil.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gas-rationing-sign.jpg"> -
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Stagflation
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Nancy Reagan's "Just Say NO" campaign
Crack, a concentrated form of cocaine, contributed to crime and the decline of inner cities. Ronald Reagan's wife created a campaign to stop the use of this new drug.
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Presidential winning
James Carter had defeated President Ford in the 1967 election. He was considered to be a "Washington Outsider" and moral individual.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. was created by Steve Jobs. He created the company to make personal computers for consumers. They have gone from many bulky style computers all the way to the thin macbook air computers. <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9f/Apple-logo.svg/125px-Apple-logo.svg.png"> -
Panama Canal
The treaty was renegotiated and the US had agreed to transfer control by 2000 back to Panama. <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/PanamaCanal1913a.jpg/800px-PanamaCanal1913a.jpg"> -
Proposition 13
The voters of California led a movement to lower property taxes. Section 1. (a) The maximum amount of any ad valorem tax on real property shall not exceed one percent (1%) of the full cash value of such property. The one percent (1%) tax to be collected by the counties and apportioned according to law to the districts within the counties.
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Camp David Accords
President Carter's greatest foreign policy triumph. Peace treaty signed between the Egyptian president (Anwar Sadat) and the Prime Minister of Isreal (Menachem Begin). <a href="http://www.voiceofthecopts.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Camp-David.jpg"> -
Signing his first energy package
President Carter's Domestic Affairs</a>President Carter had signed his first energy bill into law. This would help to provide much more energy than before and to lower the prices of that energy
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Iran Hostage Crisis
This was President Carter's greatest foreign policy crisis that started in Iran. When the US had backed up Shah and was overthrown in an Islamic revolution headed by the religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini. They took 52 American hostages from the US Embassy and help them for 444 days.
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Reagan Beating President Carter
Ronald Reagan had beaten both Jimmy Carter and John B. Anderson in the 1980 election. Because of the decreasing economy, the Iranian hostage Crisis, and the resurgence of conservatism, Reagan won by a landslide.
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James Watt's Criticism
Secretary of Interior James Watt was criticized by environmentalists for opening much of the public lands for business exploitation as a consequence of deregulation.
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Yuppies
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Soviet Grain Embargo
President Carter had put an embargo on the Grain Exports to USSR after invading the Soviets. He then had the US boycott the 1980's Moscow Olympics.<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/goldenwheat-375x249.jpg"> -
NASA improvements
In 1981, NASA had created the first space shuttle and had the first space launch. However, in 1986, the space shuttle CHALLENGER had exploded just shortly after lift off. <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/STS-109_launch.jpg/200px-STS-109_launch.jpg"> -
Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in
President Reagan had nominated Sandra Day O'Connor for the first female supreme court justice judge. She took the job and was sworn in on Thursday, September 24th, 1981. She had grown up around many of her family, mostly in isolation. She served over 24 years before leaving office. <a href="http://www.oyez.org/sites/default/files/justices/sandra_day_oconnor/sandra_day_oconnor_photo.jpg"> -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Also called "Star Wars." President Reagan funded an initiative to develop a system to intercept and destroy nuclear missles. This was later renamed Ballistic Missle Defense Offense (BMDO) under President Clinton's administration. <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Sdilogo.svg/220px-Sdilogo.svg.png"> -
Invasion of Grenada
President Ronald Reagan sent troops during the Cold War to the island of Grenada with a plan to remove communism and set up a pro-US government. He sent these troops in after the Reagan Doctrine which was to build up the military and provide aid to the countries that were opposing to communism.
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Reagan won reelection in 1984
When going up for reelection in 1984, Reagan had won the most of all the past presidents. He had gotten over 500 votes and won 58.8%, getting almost all the states in the 50 states of the US (49). No president has managed to come close to or surpass the same amount of votes that Reagan had gotten in 1984
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Iran-Contra Scandal
Members of Reagan's Administration such as Colnel Oliver North were selling weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East. Contra were given the money earned from the sales after Congress had forbidden it.
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