THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980
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Making Saudi Arabia increasing oil production which led to Russian oil preserves losing value.
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Star Wars arms program and the Space Race
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Increasing tariffs on imports from USSR
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Decreasing exports to USSR
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Detailed explanation-1: -The end of Reagan’s Star Wars program The SDI was officially halted in 1993, when Bill Clinton’s administration created the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, which focused on a different threat. By this time, Reagan’s Star Wars program was considered a failure.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Reagan administration, real GDP growth averaged 3.5%, compared to 2.9% during the preceding eight years. The annual average unemployment rate declined by 1.7 percentage points, from 7.2% in 1980 to 5.5% in 1988, after it had increased by 1.6 percentage points over the preceding eight years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), byname Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks-as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983.