Today's Agenda

Learning Target:
I can analyze the causes and effects of the conservative movement of the 1980s.

Critical Vocabulary: Reagan Revolution, New Right, Conservative Coalition, Moral Majority, Reaganomics, "Trickle Down" Economics, Deregulation, "Peace through Strength," Reagan Doctrine, "Evil Empire," Strategic Defense Initiative, "Freedom Fighters," Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Contras, Sandidnatas, Iran-Contra Affair, Grenada, Mikhail Gorbachev, Glasnost, Perestroika, INF Treaty, Tiananmen Square, 1989 Revolutions, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Collapse of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin, START I, START II, Iran-Iraq War, Hezbollah Bombings, Libya, Mummar Gaddafi, Pan Am Flight 103, Saddam Hussein, Gulf War, AIDS, War on Drugs, A Nation at Risk, Urban Decline, Challenger Explosion, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Who was president throughout much of the 1980s?
2. Citizenship Question: What Ocean is on the East Coast of the United States? 
   1. Arctic Ocean 
   2. Indian Ocean 
   3. Pacific Ocean 
   4. ​Atlantic Ocean
3. Guided Instruction: The Century - A New World
4. Reflection Question: Why did national politics move towards the right in the 1980s?

Homework: The 1980s Reading