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Ronald Reagan won the 1980 Presidential election. He won by a landslide beating out Jimmy Carter with 90% of the electoral vote. The popular vote showing slightly different results with only 10% over Carter. [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1980]
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Present Reagan trickle-down economics cutting taxes for the wealthy the theory being that they will spend the extra money which will grow the economy. [https://www.thebalance.com/trickle-down-economics-theory-effect-does-it-work-3305572]
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In November of 1979 more than 60 Americas were captured by a group of Iranian students because they were fed up with American interference. Eventually, after much negotiations, America and Iran signed an agreement to release the hostages but America would have to unfreeze their assets. [http://www.history.com/topics/iran-hostage-crisis]
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John Hinckley was an insane man how tried and failed to kill President Ronald Reagan he a bad aim he missed much time injuring three including Reagan due to an unlikely ricochet. [http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ronald-reagan-is-shot-by-john-hinckley-jr]
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The Aids epidemic
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SDI or Star Wars was created to develop defense systems such as anti-ballistic missiles. They were breaking grounds and reaching cutting edge technology but after a couple of years, the program was defunded. [http://www.coldwar.org/articles/80s/SDI-StarWars.asp]
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Ronald Reagan was elected a second term. With mostly Red states. [https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1984]
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Ronald Reagan Promised to lessen the Soviet Union and communism. It was later dubbed The “Reagan Doctrine”. [http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3369]
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev created a program called the Glasnost and Perestroika to try and end the Cold War. It worked but too well it was the main reason the Soviet Union collapsed. [http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/perestroika-and-glasnost]
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Iran-Contra Affair was a plan/deal by Reagan to give weapons to Iron in exchange for hostages. Basically hostage negotiation. [http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1889.html]
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The Challenger exploded soon after liftoff kills all seven astronauts on board. It was probably caused when a little morning chill causing two rubber O-rings to fail. [http://www.history.com/topics/challenger-disaster#]
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George Bush a republican won the election. With majority red states. [http://www.270towin.com/1988_Election/]
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When communist government was voted out of East and West Germany the wall separating the two was soon destroyed. [http://www.ushistory.org/us/59e.asp]
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The massacre was a terrible tragedy. The Chinese government tried to silence protesters by sending its military in. The troops killed many (more than 300) of the protesters and arrested many more (more than 10,000). The wanted democracy and the totalitarian government you had. [http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tiananmen-square-massacre-takes-place]
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After the East German declared crossing the border separating East and West Germany legal again many of them did just that destroying the wall in the process. [http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall]
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Operation Desert Storm was the name of an operation by the United Sates during the Gulf War. [http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2020.html]
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The U.S.S.R collapsed because of the agreement that established a Commonwealth for the Independent States. [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Commonwealth-of-Independent-States]
