by Maddie Burlton

Iran Hostage Crisis

maddster123 — 2015-03-31 19:26:43 UTC

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment.

Peace Through Strength and Strategic Defense Initiative

2015-03-31 19:29:43 UTC

Thirty years ago, President Ronald Reagan put forth a vision to reduce the danger of nuclear war by launching the Stragetic Defense Initiative (SDI).

Ronald Reagan, New Right, the Moral Majority, and Equal Rights Amendment dies

maddster123 — 2015-03-31 19:37:12 UTC

The Moral Majority was a prominent American political
organization associated with the Christian right. It was founded in 1979 and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of Christians as a political force and in Republican presidential victoriesthroughout the 1980s.

Perestroika and Glasnost

2015-03-31 19:43:17 UTC

When Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931-) became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course. His dual program of “perestroika” (“restructuring”) and “glasnost” (“openness”) introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations.

Supply-side economics and Reaganomics

maddster123 — 2015-03-31 19:48:01 UTC

Reaganomics refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S.
President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly
associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics by
political opponents and free market economics by political advocates. The four
pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government
spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce
government regulation, and tighten the money supply in order to reduce
inflation.

The Iran-Contra Affair;

2015-03-31 19:48:44 UTC

Ronald Reagan's efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the
insurgent Contras' cause in Nicaragua was particularly dear to him. Battling the
Cuban-backed Sandinistas, the Contras were, according to Reagan, "the moral
equivalent of our Founding Fathers." Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the
CIA trained and assisted this and other anti-Communist insurgencies worldwide.

US support for Israel and Marines in Lebanon

maddster123 — 2015-03-31 19:52:20 UTC

The Multinational Force in Lebanon was an international
peacekeeping force created in 1982, after the demand was made by Lebanon to the
UN's secretary general, and initially to oversee the withdrawal of the
Palestine Liberation Organization. The participants included contingents of United States Marines, United States Army and Navy SEALs, units of the French
11th Parachute Brigade, the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment, the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, and other units of the French Foreign Legion, Italian soldiers, and British soldiers.

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

2015-03-31 19:55:21 UTC

The Treaty Between the United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, commonly referred to as the INF
(Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, requires destruction of the Parties'
ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of between 500 and
5,500 kilometers, their launchers and associated support structures and support
equipment within three years after the Treaty enters into force.

Space technology and exploration improving the quality of life

2015-03-31 19:59:49 UTC

We show that clustering techniques can improve the user experience of current tagging services. We trust describe current limitations of tagging services, sec-ond, we give an overview of existing approaches. We then describe the algorithms we used for tag clustering and give experimental results.

Sandra Day O’Connor & Phyllis Schlafly

maddster123 — 2015-03-31 20:00:48 UTC

Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the
first woman to be appointed to the Court. Prior to O'Connor's appointment to the Court, she was an
elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female Majority
Leader in the United States as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate.Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly is known for her staunch
social and political conservatism, her opposition to modern feminism, and hersuccessful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution.

The Rust Belt to the Sun Belt migration within the U.S. and 1986 immigration reform/amnesty;

2015-03-31 20:05:44 UTC

''Immigration acts of 1965 and 68 eliminated quotas but set up hemisphere quotas and then in 1978, countries were limited to 20,000 per country with a total of 290,000 for the
"world''

The Contract with America and the Moral Majority

maddster123 — 2015-03-31 20:14:25 UTC

This timeline of modern American conservatism lists
important events, developments and occurrences which have significantly
affected conservatism in the United States. With the decline of theconservative wing of the Democratic Party after 1960, the movement is most
closely associated with the Republican Party. Economic conservatives favor less
government regulation, lower taxes and weaker labor unions, while social
conservatives focus on moral issues and neoconservatives focus on democracy
worldwide.

The Heritage Foundation and the National Rifle Association

maddster123 — 2015-03-31 20:17:12 UTC

The Heritage Society distinguishes those men and women who strongly believe in the purposes of The NRA Foundation and generously assist in ensuring its future. Membership is awarded to all individuals who have included The NRA Foundation in their will. The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is anAmerican nonprofit organization whose primary mission is “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States..." especially the right to keep and bear arms. Founded in 1871, the group has informed its members about firearm related bills since 1934, and it has directly lobbied for and against
legislation since 1975