Event
Type of
Name
Event
"Just Say
This event
No"
was
campaign.
political
Part of
because it
President
was a
Reagan's
change in
domestic
domestic
policy was
policy.
a "War on
Drugs,"
Reagan challenge s
Gorbache
v
This was a political event because Reagan publicly challenged the Soviet
Union after the U.S. came to diplomatic terms with them. Causes
Course
Consequences
Nancy Reagan, began a Prisons overflowed,
AIDs brought highlypublicized more attention to the public was antidrug campaign. Los people’s health, angry, and no real
Angeles Police Chief as well as changes in the
Reagan’s wife, Daryl Gates founded the nation were made
DARE drug education
Nancy, who felt because of program, which was the population
Reagan’s ‘War on quickly adopted was highly at risk
Drugs.’The
nationwide. These drug for HIV/AIDS. increasingly harsh policies also blocked draconian policies expansions of syringe resulted in a access programs, in turn movement to reducing the threat of change drug
HIV/AIDs.
policies emerged in the late 80’s.
Reagan believed
In 1987 Reagan made
the wall was a
a visit to the Berlin
Germans, and they
barrier to
wall. He questioned
began to climb over
freedom for all of
Gorbachev’s reforms
the Berlin Wall.
mankind by
by publicly demanding
creating a barrier
that he tear down the
between Europe
wall.
and its people.
It inspired many
This was an Population economic shifts event because it was caused by globalizatio n and the immigratio n it caused affected the U.S. economy. Reagan’s economic plans
This was an economic event because
Reagan’s
plan was to better the
U.S.
economy.
Factories
Immigration from
Mexico to the U.S. overseas led to a became open, and loss of American has remained so today. Also, the jobs. People growing population