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The United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union was enacted in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, then Reagan lifted it. -
The Iran-Contra Affair was a secret U.S. arms deal that traded missiles and other arms to free some Americans held hostage by terrorists in Iran. -
52 United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim took them. -
The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president of the United States was held on Tuesday, January 20, 1981. -
Reagan proposes increased defense spending, and decreased taxes and domestic spending in speech to Congress. March 10, 1981. Reagan sends budget to Congress. -
United States President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. -
Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan, thus fulfilling his 1980 campaign promise to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the United States. -
President Reagan announced that he will seek Congress' approval to build 100 MX land-based missiles and 100 B1 bombers. -
The Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life. -
President Reagan ordered a series of economic reprisals against the Polish government. -
The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) is federal legislation passed in 1982 to cut the budget deficit through federal spending cuts and taxes. -
The first speech by an American president to a meeting of both houses of the British Parliament. -
A proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
A suicide bomber drives a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. -
The U.S. and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, 100 miles north of Venezuela. -
Covers under Social Security on a mandatory basis all employees of tax-exempt nonprofit organizations as of January 1, 1984. -
The United States embargo against Nicaragua was declared by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan on May 1, 1985, and prohibited all trade between the U.S. and Nicaragua. -
In 1985 farmers throughout the Midwest US struggled to keep the family farms that had been in their families for generations. -
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. -
A speech he made about the people who died in the space shuttle. -
Ronald Reagan delivers his first State of the Union address as president of the United States. -
The law imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for lifting the sanctions that would essentially end the system of apartheid, which the latter was under at the time. -
The Commission's report, published on February 27, 1987, included 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. -
Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had separated West and East Berlin since 1961. -
This agreement proposed to eliminate all intermediate and short-range ground-based missiles and launchers from Europe. -
A bill passed for the construction of sewage plants. -
The Reagan Administration today prohibited most of the nation's family planning clinics from providing advice or other assistance that would help women obtain abortions. -
Reagan and Gorbachev finalized the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. They continued to discuss bilateral issues like Central America, Southern Africa, the Middle East and the pending withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. -
At this time Reagan was leaving office, and gave a memorable speech.