...1: Compare and Contrast Effective and Ineffective Leaders Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan; (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the United States (1981–89). Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California (1967–75). Reagan had many achievements throughout his presidency. Two of which, are as listed: 1. Ending the Cold War: The Cold War had raged since World War II and communism‘s quest for world domination remained an existential threat to the United States when President Reagan took office. Reagan reversed the policy of detente and stood firm against the Soviet Union, calling it the Evil Empire and telling Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in Berlin. He was relentless in pushing his Strategic Defense Initiative and gave aid to rebels battling Soviet-backed Marxists from Nicaragua to Angola. Those efforts were critical in the ultimate collapse of the Soviet empire and essentially ended the Cold War. 2. Reaganomics: Reagan’s mix of across-the-board tax cuts, deregulation, and domestic spending restraint helped fuel an economic boom that lasted two decades. Reagan inherited a misery index (the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates) of 19.99%, and when he left office it had dropped to 9.72%. President Obama take note: Under Reaganomics, 16 million new jobs were created. “In his lifetime, Ronald Reagan was such a cheerful and invigorating presence that it was easy...
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...Ronald Wilson Reagan was the President of the United State from 1981 to 1989. During his presidency, the Cold War was still occurring. Beginning in 1947, the Cold War was a states of political and military tension, primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union, a communist country. The war lasted for forty-four years, ending in 1991. President Ronald Reagan was instrumental in ending the Cold war because of his build-up of the United States military, implementation of the Reagan Doctrine and his strong diplomatic position with Mikhail Gorbachev. Early in Reagan’s Presidency, he gave a speech deeming the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and told the U.S. citizens that he would keep an aggressive campaign against communism (Cold War...
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...Ronald Reagan - The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy POL30048GA050-1118-001 IR: The New World of International Relations October 24, 2011 Abstract In this assignment, I will write a three to five page paper on President Ronald Reagan doctrine of The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy during his presidency. In addition, this paper will address the following: 1. Summarize a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office. 2. Explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred. 3. Describe the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries. 4. Assess, in conclusion, the advantages and disadvantages of the particular doctrine that was followed. Ronald Reagan - The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy In this assignment, I will discuss President Ronald Reagan’s position on The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy during his presidency. First, let me define the terms “The Cold War”, and “U.S. Diplomacy”. The Cold War was a period of military and political tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. It was called the Cold War, because there was no direct fighting between the two powers. The term “U.S. Diplomacy” refers to a country’s ability or skill to negotiate on the international level between nations or groups of nations, or simply, it is political contact between national governments. Diplomacy is extremely important. It is the feedback...
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...1. Discuss when, why and how the Cold War began. Then cite at least one factor that perpetuated the Cold War in each decade from the 1950s-1980s and discuss how the item you selected affected America at home as well. Last, discuss when and why the Cold War ended. 2. Discuss the origins of the Vietnam War, the course of the war over thirty years in the 1940s, and wars' impact on the United States, both at home and in terms of foreign policy. 3. Write an essay on the civil rights movement since 1953 in which you discuss the major factors that have contributed to its success and its major gains. Be sure to discuss more than one group and to cite examples from each decade of the 1950s through the 1990s. 4. Discuss the reasons for America's economic growth or decline in each decade from the 1950s through the 1990s. Then explain how various presidents have dealt with economic problems and why they succeeded or failed. 5. Write an essay about the impact of television on the history of the United States over the past fifty years in which you describe in detail at least one historical event of national importance from each decade of the 1950s - 1990s that was affected by TV. Civil Right: The WWII can be recognized at the origin of the period when United States started it political and economical dominant compare to other nations. WWII reshaped Americans’ understanding of themselves as a people. The struggle against Nazi tyranny and its theory of a master race discredited...
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...The “Samaritan’s dilemma,” is the conflict we feel when we want to be altruistic, but fear being taken advantage of. It’s an argument against charity, a dilemma faced by the “soft-hearted” who want to help their neighbor but don’t want to be exploited. Stone compares the feeling to when one person in a struggling family comes into fortune and finds themselves bombarded by relatives asking for help. We can’t help everybody, because if we did we would be spread too thin. Most of us want to help the needy, but how do we accomplish this successfully? Moreover, is it in our best interest as a society to give people handouts— and is it in their interests to become reliant on help from others? We don’t want to encourage “learned helplessness,” but...
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...The Federal Government’s Efforts to Improve the Economy Economic growth and employment are the basis for increased prosperity. Over the course of American history, there has been much debate regarding whether attaining that increased prosperity is (or is not) a direct reflection of imposed federal, state, and local tax policies. These tax policies are imposed for a variety of reasons, such as to reduce budget deficits, support war efforts, and strengthen the economy. It has become increasingly difficult, however, to ascertain which economic effects are true consequences of changes in tax policy. By reviewing the state of the U.S. economy over time and how growth and employment were affected by taxation, we can see how the Fed has engaged in economic policies. The Great Depression (1929 – 1939) The stock market crashed in 1929 and the Great Depression began. The United States economy spiraled downward as the government increased taxes (through the Tax Acts of 1932 and 1936 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal”) in order to compensate for lost revenue. During this time, public opinion had been that the wealthy were shirking their fiscal responsibilities through aggressive tax avoidance. In response, President Roosevelt’s New Deal tax laws were designed to increase statutory and effective rates on the nation’s wealthiest citizens. The rationale behind the tax increases was that increased government spending without raising taxes would weaken...
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...are several factors that contribute to the nation’s fracture, but none are as compelling as the division that occurred among the people’s view of conformity. In The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin described characteristics, such as culture, economics, and government intervention, that led to the fragmentation of society in the United States. The most striking quality mentioned the change of the level of individuality within America during the twentieth century. Whether America was full of conformists or individualists depended on the contributions that led to the fracture described by Levin. The variation in culture, the economy, and government intervention not only resulted in a fragmented nation, but it also caused the redefinition of the country’s public identity. Today, individualism in America has caused an even greater divide within communities that were once close, and according to Alexis de...
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...LESSON 32 - A Conservative Age Objectives Identify how President Nixon enacted foreign and domestic policy Identify key political events that impacted the Presidency during this time period Identify the impact the economy had on America Identify key events in the birth of the Environmental Movement President Nixon at Home and Abroad President Richard Nixon pushed conservative policies. President Nixon wanted to limit power of the federal government by introducing revenue sharing. Revenue sharing allowed local and state governments more freedom to spend federal aid. Nixon wanted to reform social welfare, but his plan failed to pass Congress. At first Nixon worked with Congress, which Democrats controlled. Soon he refused to spend money voted by Congress on programs that he did not approve of. The Supreme Court ruled President Nixon's actions unconstitutional. President Nixon began a policy of law and order by enlisting the CIA and IRS to harass the liberals and dissidents that he considered...
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...Booker T. Washington was an emancipated slave in the deep south during the Reconstruction era of America. He was well educated and well-spoken with promising views for the future. His vision for the future was to give African Americans a chance at an education in trade jobs. He made his vision a reality in 1881 when he founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Providing African Americans with an opportunity at an education would drastically change the economy in the south and would empower the civil rights movement. This was important because even though the African American slaves of the south had been freed, they had still been facing severe segregation and discrimination from whites. Many were uneducated and unable to find work, and...
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... study Native American languages. The U.S. assumed this would allow the Axis powers to easily crack another Native American based code, until they learned just how complex the Navajo language was (“Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable...
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...affects the United States but the entire world. Throughout the past fifty years there has definitely been events that have changed, shaped and influenced the public opinion and perception of immigration greatly. In 2014, one of these events occurred when United States President Barack Obama decided to implement a major executive action on immigration policy, offering temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, along with an indefinite reprieve from deportation (Ehrenfreund). This significant event now meant that the idea and topic of immigration was currently ever present and may change a vast amount of opinions in our country. In order to understand who we are today as a culture concerning immigration, it is important to know how we came about to our current status. During the 1960s when the civil rights movement was gaining momentum, our country also began to call for a reform of our U.S. immigration policy (Ludden). At this time in history many people were focused on equality as a whole regardless of race. So, it should not be too surprising that the issues of civil rights and immigration basically went hand and hand. Since about the 1920s, the current immigration model was relatively a quota system that many pro-civil rights...
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...however, had a massive impact on the balance within this relationship, and by 1945 not only had Europe lost its place at the head of the international table but had become highly dependent on the United States itself. Still, in uncertain times, the US continued to need as many friends as it could muster, and whether one prefers to view the nature of the postwar relationship in the more liberal sense of being a ‘community’, or in more realist terms as being one in which an American hegemon dictated terms to weak dependencies, matters less than in recognising how important the relationship was to become to both countries during the Cold War. Thus, Europe needed the US to survive in a bipolar world: the United States, however, required Europe in order to protect that world from the threat posed by its many anti-western enemies around the world. This short article says nothing about how the Cold War was fought, or how Europe and the United States then managed to navigate their way from one era of more or less Cold War unity (sometimes more and sometimes less) to another, where the relationship had to be sustained without a clear and present danger. What it does do is something more immediate: namely, examine...
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...The Cold War Overview * Arms Race * Communism * Glossary and Terms * Space RaceMajor Events * Berlin Airlift * Suez Crisis * Red Scare * Berlin Wall * Bay of Pigs * Cuban Missile Crisis * Collapse of the Soviet UnionWars * Korean War * Vietnam War * Chinese Civil War * Yom Kippur War * Soviet Afghanistan War | People of the Cold War Western Leaders * Harry Truman (US) * Dwight Eisenhower (US) * John F. Kennedy (US) * Lyndon B. Johnson (US) * Richard Nixon (US) * Ronald Reagan (US) * Margaret Thatcher (UK)Communist Leaders * Joseph Stalin (USSR) * Leonid Brezhnev (USSR) * Mikhail Gorbachev (USSR) * Mao Zedong (China) * Fidel Castro (Cuba) | http://www.ducksters.com/history/cold_war/summary.php The Cold War Communism Communism is a type of government and philosophy. Its goal is to form a society where everything is shared equally. All people are treated equally and there is little private ownership. In a communist government, the government owns and controls most everything including property, means of production, education, transportation, and agriculture. History of Communism Karl Marx is considered the Father of Communism. Marx was a German philosopher and economist who wrote about his ideas in a book called the Communist Manifesto in 1848. His communist theories have also become known as Marxism. Marx described ten important aspects of a communist government: * No private property * A single central bank...
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...the people. Indeed globalization conceals a great deal. There is nothing more indicative of this than what took place in Beirut towards the end of 1997 when the Centre for the Study of Arab Unity, one of the leftovers of Arab nationalists, held a conference to study globalisation and determine what stance should be adopted regarding it. It seems that they saw in globalisation a contradiction and threat to the idea of nationalism. It was mentioned in the viewpoint of the call to the conference that the subject matter under discussion was: Globalisation and the way for the Arab to deal with its understanding and manifestation in the areas of economics, culture and politics. Its historical, current and future role. Of particular interest is how the United States would deal with globalisation, especially after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War; its effect on the economy and investment in the Arab countries in addition to their cultural environment and identity. Many scholars and university professors were invited to the Conference and they contributed their understanding of globalisation and the stance that should be adopted regarding it. The local papers published briefs of the dissertation put forward by the delegates in the conference, which lasted three days. Huge differences appeared in these studies until the Conference became like a dialogue between deaf people rather than an intellectual conference. Those supervising the Conference decided...
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...Preparatory School Jim Brown’s Role in Shaping Perceptions of Athletes as Advocates for Social Change. Arjun Tummala Honors US History - H Block Mr. Kurt Wahlgren March 15, 2024 To what extent did the activism of Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown shape perceptions of athletes as advocates for social change? Table of Contents:. Introduction Jim Brown's Emergence as an Activist Public Perceptions and Reactions Legacy and Influence on Athlete Activism Tainted Legacy Conclusion. Both historically and contemporarily, professional athletes have gained popularity not solely for their exceptional abilities within their respective sports, but also for...
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