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Held on a Tuesday at the US capital -
Algiers Accords signed January 19, 1981. Hostages were released January 20, 1981 -
Reagan proposed increased defense spending, and decreased taxes to congress in 1981 -
This was an assassination attempt on Reagan while he was leaving the Hilton hotel in Washington DC -
In response to the Soviet Union, the US made a grain embargo. It was lifted when Reagan took office. -
The Reagan administration fired 11,345 air traffic controllers for ignoring an order. They were banned from the federal service for life. -
Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to Supreme court by Reagan ,she was the first female justice to serve the Supreme court. -
Economic and other sanctions were imposed on Poland in response to the repression that descended on the Polish people as a result of martial law. -
Reagan delivered his first State of the Union address in a televised speech. -
President Ronald Reagan presents his hope for a future that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." -
A federal law enacted in 1982 to increase revenue through a combination of spending cuts, tax increases, and tax reform measures. -
This was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by nuclear weapons. -
Makes comprehensive changes in Social Security coverage, financing, and benefit structure. -
Two truck bombs hit buildings in Beirut and Lebanon, killing service members -
The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada. -
Farmers couldn't get enough credit to keep themselves going. -
This embargo prohibited all trade between the U.S. and Nicaragua. -
Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time to talk about international diplomatic relations, along with the arms race. -
Reagan gave a speech telling everyone how these people honored us with the way they lived there lives. -
A law that imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for the lifting of the sanctions. -
This was a meeting, which lead to a near successful attempt of leaders of nuclear powers to agree on complete elimination of nuclear weapons. -
Democrats won the national popular vote for the House of Representatives. -
The Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran to effect the release of American hostages held in Lebanon. -
This concluded that CIA Director William Casey should have taken over the operation and made the president aware of the risks. -
A primary law that governs water pollution. -
Reagan was trying to get people to tear down the wall, this wall symbolized soviet oppression. -
This treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, along with restricting the deployment on them. -
Reagan prohibited most family planning clinics, an any assistance with abortion -
A meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. -
This was Reagans last time speaking as President.