Ronald Reagan Administration and policies, including Star Wars and Reaganomics

1. Chapter 33

4. 40th
President
Ronald
Reagan
The Great
Communicator

5. Affirmative action
• Requires
companies to give
special
consideration to
women, blacks,
minorities
• View this as reverse
discrimination
(favoring one group
over another base
on race)

6. Mikhail
Gorbachev

7. End of cold War
• Soviet introduced
– GLASNOST
openness, allow
western ideas and
goods
– PERESTROIKA -
allowed limited
market

8. Fall of
communism-
Soviet

9. Fall of Berlin Wall

11. William Jefferson ‘Bill” Clinton

12. Impeachment

13. George
Herbert
Walker
Bush

14. Boris Yeltsin

18. Operation Desert Storm

21. AGM- 65
MaverickBLU 82
chapparal
F15C Eagle

22. F5 Jet
Hellfire
Hydra

23. Hawk-

24. Patriot

26. Stinger

27. Tomahawk

28. Avenger

29. Well maintained piece of Iraqie equipment
looks like a HellFire reached out and touched it

30. Soldiers visiting a bone year where Iraqie tanks
were consolidated by Kuwait after operation-
leftover artillery

31. Thomas Clarence v. Anita Hill-1991
Sexual Harassment
case

32. Rodney King - 1992

39. Reagan “Star Wars” speech- March
23, 1983
• In the following speech, President Ronald
Reagan first announced his intentions to
develop a new system to reduce the threat of
nuclear attack and end the strategy of mutual
deterrence.
• The system he proposed became known as
"Star Wars," after the popular movie, because it
was meant to destroy missiles from space. The
Soviets feared the system would increase the
risk of the United States launching a first attack
because U.S. officials would not fear retaliation

40. SDI- became known
as Star Wars
• MX missile
Peacekeeper
• B-1 Bomber
• Defense system
that would keep
US safe from
enemy missiles
• Estimated in
trillions

41. Sandra Day O’Connor

42. William Rehnquist

43. 1981 attempt on President Reagan

44. Walter Mondale/ Geraldine Ferraro
1st
woman on major party’s
presidential ballot- V.P

45. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency
syndrome

55. Roe v. Wade

58. 1.2 million aborted every year

62. Appearance of
his face
indicates a
horrible death
was this boy
experimented
upon while still
alive

78. Drug Abuse

80. Gay rights movements

81. Iran- Contra Scandal-1983

84. Oliver North

85. The Challenger- 1986

91. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill-1989

92. • No one anticipated any unusual problems as the Exxon Valdez left
the Alyeska Pipeline Terminal at 9:12 p.m., Alaska Standard Time,
on March 23,1989. The 987-foot ship, second newest in Exxon
Shipping Company's 20-tanker fleet, was loaded with 53,094,510
gallons (1,264,155 barrels) of North Slope crude oil bound for Long
Beach, CA. Tankers carrying North Slope crude oil had safely
transited Prince William Sound more than 8,700 times in the 12
years since oil began flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline, with
no major disasters and few serious incidents. This experience gave
little reason to suspect impending disaster. Yet less than three
hours later, the Exxon Valdez grounded at Bligh Reef, rupturing
eight of its 11 cargo tanks and spewing some 10.8 million gallons of
crude oil into Prince William Sound.

93. • Exxon was fined $150 million, the
largest fine ever imposed for an
environmental crime. The court forgave
$125 million of that fine in recognition
of Exxon's cooperation in cleaning up
the spill and paying certain private
claims.

99. Containment boom

100. Cleanup operations included skimming oil from the water surface with towed booms. Two boats are
towing the boom. Oil is collecting within in the boom, and a small skimmer at the apex of the boom is
removing the oil from the water surface. The skimmed oil is being pumped through a hose into the
barge that is following the skimmer.

103. As the spilled oil moved across the waters of Prince William Sound, responders tried to
protect especially sensitive location, such as this salmon hatchery in the western South,
which they surrounded with protective boom. Boom floats on the water surface and is
designed to act as a barrier to oil

108. In 1989, hoses spraying seawater were used to flush oil
from shorelines. The released oil was then trapped with
offshore boom, and removed using skimmers, vacuum
trucks (useful for thick layers of oil) and boom (sorbent,
snare, pompoms). For hard to reach areas, or locations
with weathered oil, heated seawater was used to flush oil
from the shoreline.

109. • Converted vessels and barges were used for beach washing
operations. It would take several days to outfit a conventional barge
with the equipment needed to heat and pump the water. Smaller
vessels that were used for beach washing early in the spill were re-
outfitted for bioremediation later in the response.
• Along with the large-scale beach washing, manual cleanup, raking
and tilling the beaches, oily debris pickup, enhanced bioremediation
and spot washing were used to cleanup the oil. In some locations,
oil was thick enough to be picked up with shovels and buckets. In
addition, mechanical methods were used on a few sites, including
the use of bulldozers to relocate or remove the contaminated beach
surfaces. Mechanical rock washing machines, which were
manufactured for the spill, were not used to clean contaminated
rocks and return them to the beach.

110. Workers using high-pressure, hot-water washing to clean an oiled shoreline. In this treatment method,
used on many prince William Sound beaches, oil is hosed from beaches, collected within floating
boom, then skimmed from the water surface. Other common treatment methods included cold water
flushing of beaches, manual beach cleaning

113. When crews cleaned a beach with high-pressure, hot water washing,
booms were used, as shown here, to prevent oil re-floated by the
cleaning operations from escaping back into Prince William Sound

118. Bags of cleanup debris deposited in
a landfill --- Oregon State

119. Dump site for oil collected from the
water

120. Homeless

140. Saddam
Hussein

141. Operation Desert Storm/ Gulf
Waras a war waged by a UN-
authorizedcoalition force from 34
nations led by the United States,
against Iraq in response to Iraq's
invasion and annexation of
Kuwait.
The great majority of the military
forces in the coalition were from
the United States, with Saudi
Arabia, the United Kingdom and
Egypt as leading contributors, in
that order. Around US$36 billion
of the US$60 billion cost was paid
by Saudi

142. The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from
Kuwait began with an aerial bombardment on 17
January 1991. This was followed by a ground
assault on 23 February. This was a decisive
victory for the coalition forces, who liberated
Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory. The
coalition ceased their advance, and declared a
cease-fire 100 hours after the ground campaign
started. Aerial and ground combat was confined
to Iraq, Kuwait, and areas on the border of Saudi
Arabia.

148. A Boeing CH 47d Chinook helicopter awaits a
launch decision during operation Desert Storm

150. George
Herbert
Walker Bush

151. Somalia-
famine

159. David Koresh- Waco Tragedy

163. Oklahoma Bombing

172. Timothy
McVeigh

174. Memorial

175. Dolly- cloned sheep

176. In 1978, the country
gained worldwide
attention when
American religious
cult leader Jim Jones
and 900 of his
followers committed
mass suicide in
Jonestown, Guyana.

177. • James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978)
was the American founder of the Peoples Temple, which became
synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978
mass murder-suicide in their isolated agricultural
intentional community called Jonestown, located in Guyana,
South America. Over 900 people died from cyanide poisoning or
gunshot wounds. To the extent the actions in Jonestown were
viewed as a mass suicide, it is one of the largest such mass
suicides in history, perhaps the largest in over 1,900 years and the
largest mass suicide of United States citizens. At a nearby airstrip,
the event also resulted in the first and only murder of a
Congressman, Leo Ryan, in the line of duty in the history of the
United States, along with the murder of two journalists and a
defecting Temple member.

178. He claimed to be an incarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, the Buddha, Lenin, and
Father Divine and performed supposed miracle healings to attract new converts.
[citation needed] Members of Jones' church called him "Father" and believed their
movement was the solution to the problems of society; many did not distinguish
Jones from the movement.
• Jones purported to preach what he called "apostolic socialism."[8] In doing
so, the Temple openly preached to established members that "religion is an
opiate of the people."[9] Accordingly, "those who remained drugged with the
opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment -- socialism."[10] In
that regard, Jones also openly stated that he "took the church and used the
church to bring people to atheism." [11] Jones often mixed those concepts,
such as preaching that "If you're born in this church, this socialist revolution,
you're not born into sin. If you're born in capitalist America, racist America,
fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism,
you're not born in sin."[9]
• In 1961, Jones helped to integrate churches, restaurants, the telephone
company, the police department, a theater, an amusement park, and the
Methodist Hospital and became the executive director of the Indianapolis
Human Rights Commission.[4]
• Jones received considerable criticism in Indiana for his integrationist views.
[4] Subsequently, in 1965, Jones left Indiana, moving the Peoples Temple to
Redwood Valley, California based, in part, on Jones' belief that it would be a
more safe location if nuclear war were to occur.[4]

179. • In November 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan led a fact-finding mission to the
Jonestown settlement in Guyana to investigate allegations of human rights abuses
by relatives of Temple members in the U.S. Ryan's delegation, which included
Don Harris, an NBC network news reporter, an NBC cameraman and reporters for
various newspapers. The group arrived in Jonestown on November 15 and spent
three days interviewing residents. Ryan's delegation was originally denied access
to the camp, where it was later learned that the residents were practicing songs
and dance. The delegation was granted access on November 17. However, it left
hurriedly on the morning of Saturday November 18, after an attempt was made on
Ryan's life by a man armed with a knife. The attack was thwarted, bringing the
visit to an abrupt end. Congressman Ryan and his people succeeded in taking
with them fifteen People's Temple members who had expressed a wish to leave.
At that time, Jones made no attempt to prevent their departure. However, Peoples
Temple survivors reported that a group from Jonestown left shortly afterwards in a
truck with the intention of stopping the delegation and members from leaving the
country alive.
• Surviving delegation members later told police that as they were boarding two
planes at the airstrip, the truck with Jones' armed guards arrived and began
shooting at them, killing Congressman Ryan and five others. At the same time,
one of the supposed defectors, Larry Layton, drew a weapon and began firing on
members of the party. An NBC cameraman was able to capture footage of the
shooting. When the gunmen departed, six people were dead: Representative
Ryan, Don Harris, a reporter from NBC, a cameraman from NBC, a newspaper
photographer, and one defector from the Peoples Temple. Surviving the attack
were future Congresswoman Jackie Speier, then a staff member for Ryan;
Richard Dwyer, the Deputy Chief of Mission from the U.S. Embassy at
Georgetown and allegedly an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Bob
Flick, a producer for NBC News. The murder of Congresman Ryan was the first
and only murder of a Congressman in the line of duty in the history of the United
States.[35]

180. • Later that same day, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 276
of them children, died in what has commonly been
labeled a mass suicide. However, because there is much
ambiguity regarding whether many who participated did
so voluntarily or were forced (or even killed outright),
some feel that mass murder is a more accurate
description. Some followers obeyed Jones' instructions
to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-
laced grape flavored Flavor Aid[36][37] (often
misidentified as Kool-Aid), along with a sedative.
Children were given the drink first and families were told
to lie down together. The mass suicide had been
practiced in simulated events called "White Nights" on a
regular basis.

181. • The reason given by Jones to commit suicide was consistent with
Jones' previously stated conspiracy theories of intelligence
organizations allegedly conspiring against the Temple, that men
would "parachute in here on us," "shoot some of our innocent
babies" and "they'll torture our children, they'll torture some of our
people here, they'll torture our seniors."[38] Parroting Jones' prior
statements that hostile forces would convert captured children to
fascism, one temple member states "the ones that they take
captured, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies."[38]
Jones can be heard saying, "Don't be afraid to die" and, regarding
death as "just stepping over into another plane" and that "[death is]
a friend."[38]
• Jones was found dead sitting in a deck chair with a gunshot wound
to the head that Guyanese coroner Cyrill Mootoo stated was
consistent with a self-inflicted gun wound

188. Heaven’s Gate

190. • Heaven's Gate was the name of a San Diego based
American religious group led by Marshall Applewhite and
Bonnie Nettles. The group's end coincided with the
appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. Applewhite
convinced thirty-eight followers to commit suicide so that
their souls could take a ride on a spaceship that they
believed was hiding behind the comet. Such beliefs have
led some observers to characterize the group as a type of
"UFO religion"[1] They believed that the planet Earth was
about to be recycled (wiped clean, refurbished and
rejuvenated), and that the only chance to survive was to
leave it immediately.[2] The group was formally against
suicide, but they defined "suicide" to mean "to turn against
the Next Level when it is being offered."[3] They were
convinced that their "human" bodies were only vessels
meant to help them on their journey.

191. • Thirty-eight group members, plus Applewhite, the group's leader, were
found dead in a rented mansion in the upscale San Diego community of
Rancho Santa Fe, California, on March 26, 1997. Two former members of
Heaven's Gate, Wayne Cooke and Charlie Humphreys, died in copycat
suicides. Humphreys had survived a suicide pact with Cooke in May 1997,
but successfully committed suicide in February 1998.[5][6] The mass death
of the Heaven's Gate group was widely publicised in the media as an
example of cult suicide.[7]
• In preparing to kill themselves, members of the group drank citrus juices to
ritually cleanse their bodies of impurities. The suicide was accomplished by
ingestion of phenobarbital mixed with vodka, along with plastic bags
secured around their heads to induce asphyxiation. They were found lying
neatly in their own bunk beds, with their faces and torsos covered by a
square, purple cloth. Each member carried a five dollar bill and three
quarters in their pockets. All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and
sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike "Cortez" athletic shoes, and
armband patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team." The suicides were
conducted in shifts, and the remaining members of the group cleaned up
after each prior group's death.[8

192. • From Heaven's Gate Web Site:
Home Page Text
•
• Whether Hale-Bopp has a "companion" or not is irrelevant from
our perspective. However, its arrival is joyously very significant
to us at "Heaven's Gate." The joy is that our Older Member in
the Evolutionary Level Above Human (the "Kingdom of
Heaven") has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopp's approach is
the "marker" we've been waiting for -- the time for the arrival of
the spacecraft from the Level Above Human to take us home to
"Their World" -- in the literal Heavens. Our 22 years of
classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion
-- "graduation" from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are
happily prepared to leave "this world" and go with Ti's crew. If
you study the material on this website you will hopefully
understand our joy and what our purpose here on Earth has
been. You may even find your "boarding pass" to leave with us
during this brief "window."
• We are so very thankful that we have been recipients of this
opportunity to prepare for membership in Their Kingdom, and to
experience Their boundless Caring and Nurturing.

194. Comet Hale-Bopp

197. Mark 1
“The Baby”

202. Apple computer

203. Steven Jobs

206. Monica Lewinsky

207. She wants
her stained
dress back
and have no
intention of
selling it

209. Columbine High Tragedy

213. Dylan Klebold

214. Eric Harris

215. Coach Sanders ran upstairs to alert
the people

216. Eric on the stairs

218. Trying to shoot at the propane
bomb but did not go off

219. Detonated one propane bomb that
caused a fire

220. Both went back to the cafeteria

231. Rachel Joy Scott

234. George
Bush Jr.
George Bush Sr.

235. The Justice Department is investigating the death of an Abu Ghraib prison detainee
whose body, packed in ice, is documented in photos that also show two American
soldiers posing nearby with thumbs up, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The photos show Army Sgt. Charles A. Graner Jr. and Spc. Sabrina Harman, both of
whom have already been charged in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal.

237. • ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - State officials Tuesday defended
their decision to suddenly separate mothers from many of the
children taken in a raid on a polygamist ranch in West Texas.
Texas Children's Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh
Meisner said the separation was made Monday after they
decided that children are more truthful in interviews about
possible abuse if their parents are not around.
• When state troopers and child welfare officials seized 416
children from the compound, 139 women accompanied them
on their own and had been allowed to stay with the children
until Monday, when they were driven back to the compound.
• Only women with children under 5 could stay at the San Angelo
Coliseum where they were being held.

238. New Right
• Focus on
controversial issues
– school prayer, lower
taxes, a smaller
government, teaching
the Bible
• They opposed gun
control, abortion,
homosexual rights,
affirmative action, and
nuclear disarmament