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This document contains 20 figures summarizing key events from 1980 to 2000, including Reagan's election and policies promoting smaller government and tax cuts, the rise of the religious right, the AIDS crisis and culture wars, increased incarceration during the war on drugs, international terrorist attacks on U.S. targets, arms control agreements between the U.S. and Soviet Union, conflicts in the Middle East, Clinton's presidency and impeachment, and the contested 2000 presidential election between Bush and Gore.
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- 1. U.S. HISTORY Chapter 31From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 PowerPoint Image Slideshow
- 2. FIGURE 31.1 This strikingpiece of graffiti from the Berlin Wall, now housed in the Newseum in Washington, DC, contains the name of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a group formed in 1987 in New York City to combat the spread of AIDS and the perception that AIDS was the product of immoral behavior.
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- 4. FIGURE 31.3 In 1961,when Congress began to explore nationwide health insurance for the elderly under Social Security, Reagan made a recording for the American Medical Association in which he denounced the idea—which was later adopted as Medicare—as “socialized medicine.” Such a program, Reagan warned his listeners, was the first step to the nation’s demise as a free society.
- 5. FIGURE 31.4 Ronald Reagancampaigns for the presidency with his wife Nancy in South Carolina in 1980. Reagan won in all the Deep South states except Georgia, although he did not come from the South and his opponent Jimmy Carter did.
- 6. FIGURE 31.5 Ronald Reaganoutlines his plan for tax reduction legislation in July 1981. Data suggest that the supply-side policies of the 1980s actually produced less investment, slightly slower growth, and a greater decline in wages than the non–supply side policies of the 1990s.
- 7. FIGURE 31.6 President RonaldReagan signs economic reform legislation at his ranch in California. Note the blue jeans, denim jacket, and cowboy boots he wears.
- 8. FIGURE 31.7 This fundraisingcard was used by Anita Bryant, singer and beauty pageant winner, to gather support for Save Our Children Inc., a political coalition she formed in the late 1970s to overturn a Florida ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Many of the group’s strategies were soon embraced by the Moral Majority.
- 9. FIGURE 31.8 Tipper Gore,wife of then-senator (and later vice president) Al Gore, at the 1985 Senate hearings into rating labels proposed by the PMRC, of which she was a cofounder.
- 10. FIGURE 31.9 The pinktriangle was originally used in Nazi concentration camps to identify those there for acts of homosexuality. Reclaimed by gay activists in New York as a symbol of resistance and solidarity during the 1970s, it was further transformed as a symbol of governmental inaction in the face of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s.
- 11. FIGURE 31.10 This graphof the number of people in jail, prison, and juvenile detention by decade in the United States shows the huge increase in incarceration during the war on drugs that began in the 1980s, during the Reagan administration. (Prisons are long-term state or federal facilities; jails are local, short-term facilities.)
- 12. FIGURE 31.11 The suicidebombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut (a) on April 18, 1983, marked the first of a number of attacks on U.S. targets in the region. Less than six months later, a truck bomb leveled the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut airport (b), part of a coordinated attack that killed 299 U.S and French members of the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
- 13. FIGURE 31.12 In theEast Room of the White House, President Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev sign the 1987 INF Treaty, eliminating one category of nuclear weapons.
- 14. FIGURE 31.13 George H.W. Bush greets U.S. troops stationed in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day in 1990. The first troops were deployed there in August 1990, as part of Operation Desert Shield, which was intended to build U.S. military strength in the area in preparation for an eventual military operation.
- 15. FIGURE 31.14 During his1967 campaign for student council president at Georgetown University, Bill Clinton told those who voted for him that he would invite them to the White House when he became president of the United States. He kept his promise.
- 16. FIGURE 31.15 This adfor the Apple II appeared in Byte magazine in 1977.
- 17. FIGURE 31.16 C. EverettKoop, who had served as surgeon general under Ronald Reagan and was a strong advocate of healthcare reform, helped First Lady Hillary Clinton promote the Health Security Act in the fall of 1993.
- 18. FIGURE 31.17 The remainsof automobiles stand in front of the bombed federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995 (a). More than three hundred nearby buildings were damaged by the blast, an attack perpetrated at least partly to avenge the Waco siege (b) exactly two years earlier.
- 19. FIGURE 31.18 Yitzhak Rabin(left) and Yasser Arafat (right), shown with Bill Clinton, signed the Oslo Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993. Rabin was killed two years later by an Israeli who opposed the treaty.
- 20. FIGURE 31.19 Floor proceedingsin the U.S. Senate during the 1998 impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, who was narrowly acquitted of both charges.
- 21. FIGURE 31.20 The mapshows the results of the 2000 U.S. presidential election. While Bush won in the majority of states, Gore dominated in the more populous ones, winning the popular vote overall.