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establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters -
November 1979, after 444 days, Iranian college students released the hostages that they seized after taking over the American embassy. -
Reagan lifted the embargo one year after president carter enacted it in response to their Afghanistan invasion in 1979 -
the First Inauguration to be held on the west side of the capitol building -
addressed the nation's financial situation and government spending. -
Shot and wounded in D.C after a speech at the Washington Hilton. shot by John Hickley jr. -
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 -
appointed by Ronald Reagan for the supreme court making her the first female justice -
Reagan puts sanctions on Poland due to outrages caused by the soviets and polish -
Federal law that rescinded some of the effects of the kemp Roth act passed a year before -
First State of the Union to be televised. -
The first speech by an American president to address a meeting with both houses of Parliament. -
increase in the benefits, automatically adjusted to the current cost of living -
defense system against potential nuclear attacks. -
two truck bombs struck American and french housing killing 241 American personnel and 58 french personnel -
The united states and six caribbean islands invaded the nation of Grenada. lasted four days code-named Operation Urgent Fury -
farmland value dropped to 60% forcing the price of food to drop. -
Ended all trade between the US and Nicaragua. -
a secret arms deal between the US and Iran that traded missiles and firearms to free some American hostages in Lebanon -
A joint statement promising a 50% reduction of nuclear superpowers -
A fatal accident that killed seven astronauts 73 seconds into the flight. -
sanctions on South Africa listed five preconditions that would lift the sanctions but would also end apartheid. -
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. -
a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin -
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 was trying t make abortions illegal going directly against Roe V. Wade. Giving anti-abortion activist a direct advantage -
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 gives his Farewell speech televised in the oval office