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Reagan brings in change and puts the first woman in the Supreme court, Sandra Day O'Connor
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Reagan made it illegal to helps the contras but news broke out of Reagan's adminitration helping and sending weapons to Iran to free some hostages.
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Strategic Defense initaive (SDI), called for the development of weapons that could intercept and destroy incoming missiles.
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There was an invasion in Carribean Island, Grenada was the first major foreign event of the administration. Reagan j the invasion by saying that the cooperation of the island with communist Cuba posed a threat to the US. When Grenada's governor-general announced the resumption of the constitution and appointed a new government, the US forces withdrew.
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Ronald Reagan wins the 1984 election. Going against former Vice- president, Walter Mondale, Reagan wins in a landslide.
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Reagan started building up the U.S Military and he believed the U.S should support guerrilla groups who were fighitng to overthrow communist or pro-Soviet governments
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One of the biggest econoy booms in U.S History
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Reagan takes the control of gas and oil prices and it helps boost the economy.
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"trickeled down econmics", THey believed that this policy would help coporations and wealthy Americans, while only a little bit would "trickle down" to average Americans