Ronald Regan Timeline

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  • Social Security reform becomes law

    Social Security reform becomes law

    In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program
  • Water Quality Control Act

    Water Quality Control Act

    The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution
  • Fifty-two American hostages held in Iran released.

    Fifty-two American hostages held in Iran released.

  • Soviet grain embargo lifted

    Soviet grain embargo lifted

    was enacted by Jimmy Carter in January 1980 in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979
  • Reagan inaugurated

    Reagan inaugurated

    The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president.
  • Reagan proposes increased defense spending, and decreased taxes and domestic spending in speech to Congress

    Reagan proposes increased defense spending, and decreased taxes and domestic spending in speech to Congress

    Reagan proposes increased defense spending, and decreased taxes and domestic spending in speech to Congress.
  • Reagan and air-traffic controllers strike

    Reagan and air-traffic controllers strike

    Ronald Reagan begins firing 11359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order for them to return to work
  • Sandra Day O’Connor nominated to Supreme Court

    Sandra Day O’Connor nominated to Supreme Court

    thus fulfilling his 1980 campaign promise to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the United States
  • Military buildup (B-1 Bomber and MX missiles)

    Military buildup (B-1 Bomber and MX missiles)

  • Sanctions on Poland

    Sanctions on Poland

    Immediately after Jaruzelski imposed martial law in 1981, the United States invoked economic sanctions against Poland
  • Tax Equity & Fiscal Responsibility Act

    Tax Equity & Fiscal Responsibility Act

    also known as TEFRA, is a United States federal law that rescinded some of the effects of the Kemp-Roth Act passed the year befor
  • Reagan addresses Parliament in England

    Reagan addresses Parliament in England

  • Strategic Defense Initiative

    Strategic Defense Initiative

    nicknamed the "Star Wars program
  • Suicide bombers attack U.S. Marines in Lebanon (1983)

    Suicide bombers attack U.S. Marines in Lebanon (1983)

    A suicide bomber drives a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. military personnel
  • Invasion of Grenada

    Invasion of Grenada

  • Embargo on Nicaragua

    Embargo on Nicaragua

    President Ronald Reagan on May 1, 1985 and prohibited all trade between the U.S. and Nicaragua
  • Farm credit crises (Feb 1985)

    Farm credit crises (Feb 1985)

  • Reagan, Gorbachev hold summit in Switzerland

    Reagan, Gorbachev hold summit in Switzerland

    the meeting was the first American-Soviet summit in more than six years.
  • Space Shuttle Challenger explosion (Reagan Speech)

    Space Shuttle Challenger explosion (Reagan Speech)

  • Reagan delivers his first State of the Union

    Reagan delivers his first State of the Union

    was given by the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, on Tuesday, February 4, 1986, at 9 p.m.
  • .South African sanctions

    .South African sanctions

    Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986
  • Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Iceland Democrats gain seats (Nov 1986)

    Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Iceland Democrats gain seats (Nov 1986)

  • Gorbachev, Reagan sign treaty (1987)

    Gorbachev, Reagan sign treaty (1987)

    Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treat
  • Tower Commission concludes report (1987)

    Tower Commission concludes report (1987)

    who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation
  • Berlin Wall Speech in West Berlin (1987)

    Berlin Wall Speech in West Berlin (1987)

    Reagan's speech echoed the message of another famous American at the Berlin Wall some 24 years before
  • Reagan prohibits abortion assistance (1988)

    Reagan prohibits abortion assistance (1988)

  • Reagan visits Soviet Union (1988)

    Reagan visits Soviet Union (1988)

    The Moscow Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union