Conservative v Liberal

What is the difference?

Conservatives

Are more likely to be Republican

Tend to favor traditional social valuesWhat are some examples?

Distrust government action except in matters of national security

Are slow to advocate change

Place a priority on maintaining social order

Liberals

Value the possibilities of progress and change

Trust the governmentLook for new ways to solve social problems

Focus on expanding individual rights and free expression

Conservative/Liberal half-sheet

Quietly and independently fill out.

Applying conservative/liberal ideology to the Reagan era

Who supported tax cuts for the wealthy

– Republicans or Democrats?

Conservatives/Republicans

Who would have supported reduced spending on social programs?

Conservatives/Republicans

Who would have supported laws protecting the rights of minorities and women?

Liberals/Democrats

Why did conservatives gain power in the 1970s and early 80s?

White southerners were traditionally democrats – they started shifting parties because of the civil rights legislation in the 1960s

What is another name for supply-side economics?

ReaganomicsEmphasized tax cuts; people would have more money to spend and that would help the economy

When President Reagan was shot, what did that do to his popularity?

Star Wars Program

What was it?

President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Create a space-based anti-missile system. This program was immediately dubbed "Star Wars.“

Intercept attacks by the SovietsTechnology was too complex; program was

cancelled

Reagan’s military buildup

Largest buildup ever

Glasnost and Perestroika

GorbachevGlasnost – more openness; less censorship and more freedom of speech

Perestroika – restructuring the Soviet economic and political system

Led to the fall of communism

Fall of the Berlin Wall

YouTube - Reagan - Tear Down This WallYouTube - Nov. 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall FallsYouTube - The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Space Shuttle Challenger

YouTube - Challenger Space Shuttle Crash

Iran Contra Scandal

Review -- Why did some Iranians hold American

students as hostage?

Hostages were being held in Lebanon by terrorist groups.

We sold weapons to Iran so Iran would pressure Lebanon to release the hostages.

We used the money to fund a group of anti-communists in Nicaragua.

What is the problem?

US had a policy refusing to negotiate w/ terrorists.

Congress had passed a law saying no money would go to the Contras (the group in Nicaragua).

Is there a problem? What is the problem?

Reagan admitted responsibility but denied knowing details His VP was the former head of the CIA!

Others were charged from the fallout of the scandal, but not Reagan.

Reagan’s approval ratings remained high.

Reagan dies in 2004, at the age of 93, from Alzheimer's