– Carter ran for president as an outsider.

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Carter Administration • Human rights central to foreign policy• Panama Canal in 2000• The Iran Crisis – The Iranian revolution • Ayatollah Komeini creates an Islamic Republic• 1979 U.S. Embassy Hostage Crisis• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-Wu1jYY9U

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Participation #5

• Answer the following question:• Analyze the success of Regan’s administration

in both domestic and foreign policy. Explain why he left office popular with the public, despite leaving behind him an enormous national debt.

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• Freedom• Reagan made conservatism seem progressive.

• Reaganomics– Reagan’s tax cuts

• Reagan and Labor• The Problem of Inequality

Map 26.1 The Presidential Election of 1980

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A family of affluent “yuppies” Young Urban Professional5

• The Second Gilded Age• Savings and Loan scandal

– During Reagan’s presidency, the national debt tripled to $2.7 trillion.

• Conservatives and Reagan– Reagan disappointed conservative

• Reagan and the Cold War– In foreign policy Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as

an “evil empire” and sponsored the largest military buildup in American history.

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Hollywood joined enthusiastically in the revivedCold War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc

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Map 26.2 The United States in the Caribbean andCentral America, 1954–2004

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• The Iran-Contra Affair– Reagan denied knowledge of the illegal proceedings, but

the Iran-Contra affair undermined confidence that he controlled his own administration.

• Reagan and Gorbachev– In his second term, Reagan softened his anticommunist

rhetoric and established good relations with Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev.• Glasnost and perestroika

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• Reagan’s Legacy– Reagan’s presidency revealed the contradictions

at the heart of modern conservatism.– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz4BvgTKQIE

• The Election of 1988– The 1988 election showed politics sinking to new

lows.

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