Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1981

  • Ronald Reagan becomes president

  • Republicans gain control of Senate

  • Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) cuts taxes

  • Military expenditures increase sharply

  • Reagan cuts budgets of regulatory agencies

  • Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to the Supreme Court
1981–1989

  • National debt triples

  • Emergence of New Right think tanks: Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, and the Cato Institute

  • United States assists Iraq in war against Iran (1980–1988)
1985

  • Mikhail Gorbachev takes power in Soviet Union
1986

  • Iran-Contra scandal weakens Reagan presidency

  • William Rehnquist named chief justice
1987

  • United States and USSR agree to limit missiles in Europe
1988

  • George H. W. Bush elected president
1989

  • Destruction of Berlin Wall

  • “Velvet Revolutions” in Eastern Europe

  • Webster v. Reproductive Health Services limits abortion services
1990–1991

  • Persian Gulf War
1991

  • Dissolution of Soviet Union ends Cold War

Question

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