Reagan

  • water quality control act

    water quality control act

    establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters
  • 52 American hostages held in Iran released

    52 American hostages held in Iran released

    November 1979, after 444 days, Iranian college students released the hostages that they seized after taking over the American embassy.
  • Soviet grain embargo lifted

    Soviet grain embargo lifted

    Reagan lifted the embargo one year after president carter enacted it in response to their Afghanistan invasion in 1979
  • Reagan Inauguration

    Reagan Inauguration

    the First Inauguration to be held on the west side of the capitol building
  • Spending Speech

    Spending Speech

    addressed the nation's financial situation and government spending.
  • Reagan Shot

    Reagan Shot

    Shot and wounded in D.C after a speech at the Washington Hilton. shot by John Hickley jr.
  • Reagan and air-traffic controllers strike

    Reagan and air-traffic controllers strike

    The Reagan administration fired over 11k air traffic controllers after their refusal to do an order from the president. banned them from federal service for life
  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    Sandra Day O'Connor

    appointed by Ronald Reagan for the supreme court making her the first female justice
  • sanctions on Poland

    sanctions on Poland

    Reagan puts sanctions on Poland due to outrages caused by the soviets and polish
  • Tax equity and Fiscal responsibility act

    Tax equity and Fiscal responsibility act

    Federal law that rescinded some of the effects of the kemp Roth act passed a year before
  • Reagan's first Sate of the Union

    Reagan's first Sate of the Union

    First State of the Union to be televised.
  • Reagan addresses British Parliament

    Reagan addresses British Parliament

    The first speech by an American president to address a meeting with both houses of Parliament.
  • Social Secuirty reforms

    Social Secuirty reforms

    increase in the benefits, automatically adjusted to the current cost of living
  • Strategic defensive initiative

    Strategic defensive initiative

    defense system against potential nuclear attacks.
  • Beirut barracks bombing

    Beirut barracks bombing

    two truck bombs struck American and french housing killing 241 American personnel and 58 french personnel
  • Invasion of Grenada

    Invasion of Grenada

    The united states and six caribbean islands invaded the nation of Grenada. lasted four days code-named Operation Urgent Fury
  • Farm credit crisis

    Farm credit crisis

    farmland value dropped to 60% forcing the price of food to drop.
  • Embargo against Nicaragua

    Embargo against Nicaragua

    Ended all trade between the US and Nicaragua.
  • Iran Contra affair

    Iran Contra affair

    a secret arms deal between the US and Iran that traded missiles and firearms to free some American hostages in Lebanon
  • Geneva summit

    Geneva summit

    A joint statement promising a 50% reduction of nuclear superpowers
  • Space shuttle Challenger disaster

    Space shuttle Challenger disaster

    A fatal accident that killed seven astronauts 73 seconds into the flight.
  • South african Sanctions

    South african Sanctions

    sanctions on South Africa listed five preconditions that would lift the sanctions but would also end apartheid.
  • Tower commission concludes report

    Tower commission concludes report

    concluded that CIA Director William Casey, who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation and made the president aware of the risks and notified Congress as legally required.
  • Berlin wall speech

    Berlin wall speech

    a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin
  • Gorbachev and Reagan sign treaty

    Gorbachev and Reagan sign treaty

    Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty in Washington, D.C. The final treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, restricting the deployment of both intermediate and short-range land-based missiles worldwide
  • Reagan prohibits abortion assistance

    Reagan prohibits abortion assistance

    Reagan was trying t make abortions illegal going directly against Roe V. Wade. Giving anti-abortion activist a direct advantage
  • Reagan visits Soviet union

    Reagan visits Soviet union

    The Moscow Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • Reagan says farewell

    Reagan says farewell

    Reagan gives his Farewell speech televised in the oval office