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Diplomatic stand off between the United States and Iran. 52 American Diplomats and citizens were taken as hostages, although they were released around a year later after the start of the Iran-Irag War which prompted them to negotiate with the U.S again. -
Ronald Reagan became president -
An attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. John had believed that the shot would impress and actress he was obsessed with -
On January 1980 Jimmy Carter enacted an embargo against the Soviets in response to the Soviets invasion of Afghanistan a year prior. A year after Jimmy Carter enacted the embargo Ronald Reagan lifted it. -
Ronald Reagan promised in his election campaign to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the U.S, he then fulfilled this promise a year later. -
Following their defeat in Vietnam Ronald Reagan wanted to build up Americas military power once more so he called for the making up B-1 bombers and MX missiles. -
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was a United States trade union that was around from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike that was broken by the Reagan Administration. -
President Reagan ordered a series of economic reprisals against the Polish government. -
Reagan's plan to combat the economic recession, "Government is the problem" -
Ronald Reagan makes a speech called "State of the Union", a speech every president has made sense Woodrow Wilson -
President Ronald Reagan presents his hope for a future that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." -
TEFRA is a United States federal law that rescinded a portion of the effects of the Kemp-Roth Act. -
A missile defense system mean't to protect the U.S from Ballistic Nuclear weapons. -
A group of amendments that made comprehensive changes to social security -
On October 23, 1983 two truck bombs hit buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, in side were American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people of which 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, 6 civilians, and 2 attackers. -
Called Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. The U.S and six Caribbean Nations invaded the nation of Grenada. -
Exports fell, due in part to the 1980 United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union. Farm debt for land and equipment purchases soared during the 1970s and early 1980s, doubling between 1978 and 1984. Other negative economic factors included high interest rates, high oil prices and a strong dollar. -
Ronald Reagan prohibited all trade between the U.S and Nicaragua. -
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
Even with the knowledge that it might be to cold for the engines to take off the Shuttle was launched anyways and it exploded killing everyone inside. -
A law that imposed Sanctions in South Africa and 5 preconditions for lifting sanctions. -
The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Reykjavík, Iceland. -
Democrats gained eight seats, and regained of the Senate from the Republicans with a 55–45 majority. They defeated seven incumbents, all but one of whom had been elected in 1980, and gained open seats held by retiring Republicans in Maryland and Nevada. -
The Commission's report, published on February 27, 1987, concluded that CIA Director William Casey, who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation and made the president aware of the risks and notified Congress as legally required. -
Senior administration officials secretly planned the sale of weapons to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. -
That law required EPA to make water quality criteria for the Great Lakes addressing 29 toxic pollutants with maximum levels that are safe for humans, wildlife, and aquatic life. It also required EPA to help the States implement the criteria on a specific schedule. -
Ronald Reagan's famous speech where he said, "Gorbachev, tear down this wall" -
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles -
Reagan passes law that limits aid for abortions. -
A meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev where they finalized the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. -
Reagan makes his final address towards the nation.