Election & Reagan

• Democrats came close to not even nominating Carter for a second term
• Ronald Reagan (Republican) narrowly won the popular vote but won an overwhelming electoral college vote
• Reagan's NEw Mroning in America caled for 1. tax reductions 2. opposition to abortion 3. support for prayer in school and endorsement of traditions and family values
• conservative religous figures like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson threw their support for Raeagan
• Reagan touted supply side economics
• They argued that large tax cuts on buisnesses and the wealthy would lead to investment and new jobs
• Congress approved Reagan's requests for tax cuts which favored rich people & buisnesses
• In conjunction the federal Reserve board kept interesxr rates high
• the result was an econimic recession
• the worst economic recession since 1929
• unemployement refused to drop after the recession ended

In other Domestic areas

• nominates Sandra Day O'Connor frist woman supreme court justice
• several othere new conseravitive judges but some were not accepted
• tried to relax enforcemnet of safety and environment laws
• in the end 1 of 5 households were below poverty level.

Election

• Reagan wins by a landslide
• republicans want to lower deficit
• later, conservatives were dissapointed with Reagan

Foreign Policy

• SDI or Star wars becomes the new policy
• the most money ever point into a government project
• Reagan used the military some as well
• Grenada becomes the next international crisis when their prime minister is killed
• marines are sent in to keep down protests
• Central America-US trains Contras to fight against the government in Nicaragua called the Sandinistas
• US Senate bans financial support to Contras but Reagan tasks his administration to find a way around the law.
• the result is rich buisness men to contribute money and it works.