APUSH Unit 9

time period

1980 (Computers) - Present

Reagan Legacy

Reaganomics

• Economic Recovery Act- “trickle-down”

War on Drugs

• DARE

Cold War

• SDI (“Star Wars”)→ outspending

• INF Treaty- compromise: both parties eliminated threatening missiles to end arms race

Iran-Contra Affair

• supports Contra without congressional approval

Moral Majority

• Roe v. Wade → states

George HW Bush Legacy

Cold War

• START Treaties- reduce arms and send funds to improve Russian economy after collapse

Persian Gulf crisis

• Operation Desert Storm

Clinton Legacy

NAFTA → free North American trade

George W Bush Legacy

War on Terrorism

• 9/11

• Patriot Acts- allow gov. to closely monitor citizens

• Department of Homeland Security

• Iraq & Suddam Hussein

technological innovations

internet & computers → globalization

developments for working class

• New International Division of Labor (foreign labor) → less power to unions

• deindustrialization → less increases in wages

developments for immigration

Vox law- punish people for immigration→ more undocumented immigrants