DEC 8, 1987

JAN 1, 1980 – JAN 1, 1983 INF Treaty

(Intermediate-Range
Reaganomics:
Nuclear Forces Treaty)
Early 1983 was signed.
Budget cuts
NOV 8, 1988
Economic upturn as Eliminated 2 classes of
Tax cuts
consumers went on weapons systems in George Bush is
Increased defense spending a spending spree. Europe. elected.

July 1981 – November 1982 NOV 6, 1984 MAR 4, 1987

November 4, 1980
The most severe recession Reagan and Bush The Iran-Contra scandal.
Ronal Reagan is since the Great Depression. won the Republican
elected. nominations. Terrorist group in Iran took a
number of Americans hostage in
Geraldine Ferraro: Lebanon.
First woman on a
major party’s Reagan urged U.S allies not to
presidential ticket sell arms to Iran but he had
approved the sale of arms to
Iran for hostages.

He sent the profits from the sale

to the Contras in Nicaragua.
 FEB 28, 1991

Secretary of State
James Baker helps to
organize Operation
July 1989 Desert Storm to
Abortion restrictions liberate Kuwait from
varied from state to Iraqi control
state.
January 1993
Yeltsin and Bush
signed START II pact,
cut both nations’
nuclear arsenals by
2/3

April 1989 NOV 9, 1989 December 1991

Student in China East Germany 14 non-Russian
began to demand opened the Berlin republics declared
freedom speech at Wall, allowing free their independence
Tiananmen Square.