The Reagan and Bush Years
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The Reagan and Bush Years
Meghan Braun
Colorado Technical University Online
July 29th, 2013
The Reagan and Bush Years During the years between 1980 and 1992, there were many different events that happened between both President Reagan and President Bush. As we will discover, if these events did not happen, America would not be the country that it is today or would the outcome be different if these events happened differently. Within this paper, we will be talking about Reagan and the “Evil Empire” and the Technological Revolution. Both of these events helped change America but what we want to know is what would happen if both of these events had not occurred or if they happened differently. Reagan’s “Evil Empire” was a speech that was given on June 8, 1982. Even though Reagan did not use the term “evil empire,” he was describing the collapse of global communism as inevitable. Within Reagan’s speech, he talks about how other societies had communism and how they all failed at it. Reagan talks about how historians study the rise and fall of communism and what exactly happened with each of these societies and how the government reacted. While describing how communism was falling in these societies, he was also telling the United States why our country should not follow in these other societies footsteps and go to communism. If Reagan did not tell the American people about communism, then maybe, just maybe, would America be a communist country today. We probably would not have all of the freedoms that we have today and we probably would not be able to have the privileges that we have as a country. Our military may also not be as strong as it is and that would make America look like a very weak country and from that, we would probably have a lot of countries coming after us and trying to take us over. The Technological Revolution is also known as the Second Industrial Revolution. Within the past twenty to thirty years, technology has been moved so
The Reagan and Bush Years
Meghan Braun
Colorado Technical University Online
July 29th, 2013
The Reagan and Bush Years During the years between 1980 and 1992, there were many different events that happened between both President Reagan and President Bush. As we will discover, if these events did not happen, America would not be the country that it is today or would the outcome be different if these events happened differently. Within this paper, we will be talking about Reagan and the “Evil Empire” and the Technological Revolution. Both of these events helped change America but what we want to know is what would happen if both of these events had not occurred or if they happened differently. Reagan’s “Evil Empire” was a speech that was given on June 8, 1982. Even though Reagan did not use the term “evil empire,” he was describing the collapse of global communism as inevitable. Within Reagan’s speech, he talks about how other societies had communism and how they all failed at it. Reagan talks about how historians study the rise and fall of communism and what exactly happened with each of these societies and how the government reacted. While describing how communism was falling in these societies, he was also telling the United States why our country should not follow in these other societies footsteps and go to communism. If Reagan did not tell the American people about communism, then maybe, just maybe, would America be a communist country today. We probably would not have all of the freedoms that we have today and we probably would not be able to have the privileges that we have as a country. Our military may also not be as strong as it is and that would make America look like a very weak country and from that, we would probably have a lot of countries coming after us and trying to take us over. The Technological Revolution is also known as the Second Industrial Revolution. Within the past twenty to thirty years, technology has been moved so
References: American Experience. (2010). The Evil Empire. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/reagan-evil-empire/ Johnson, K. (2013). The Second Industrial Revolution – The Technological Revolution. Retrieved from http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Second-Industrial-Revolution---The-Technological-Revolution&id=4935987