Summer Assignment #4 - Chapter 40: "The Resurgence of Conservatism" (The American Pageant text)

[Matthew R. Giorgio]

Hi All,

Well you made it! This is your final assignment of the Summer. Shortly
you will receive your quiz grades as well as your overall grade so far
and class rank.

Please read Chapter 40 and create another vocabulary list of 10 terms.
Email those terms to me by Wednesday August 1st. I will email you a
quiz next Friday August 3rd just like this one.

Any Questions? You know how to reach me...

[Alex Mendez]

Do I email it to your harmony email, or this one?

[iago Barreto]

Sir I want to say that I am sorry for sending this on the 3rd instead of the 1th, I really believed that the deadline for this assignment was on the 3rd of August. Again I am very sorry.

The List of ten terms Sir:

The Old Right: Traditional Conservative Republicans, who harbored suspicion of federal power.

The New Right: Conservative republicans who were, unlike their predecessors, more concerned with cultural concerns- so called social issues- than with the economy. 

                       They originated partly in response to the counterculture of the 1960s, Their concerns ranged from. Affirmative Action policies, Homosexual rights and Abortions policies.

Common man: Ronald Reagan's  ideology of the Common man, the private American against big government, which was influence by Ronald Reagan's hero Franklin D. Roosevelt and his "Forgotten Man against                                                                business business" policies. President Reagan condemned the government's interference with local affairs, favoritism for minorities, and the elitism of arrogant bureaucrats.

Norman Podhoreltz: Editor of Commentary magazine and a Neoconservative intellectual. President Reagan drew on the ideas of a small but influential group of thinkers called Neoconservatives, Norman Podhoreltz being one of them,

Irving Kristol: Editor of the Public Interest and Neoconservative intellectual, President Reagan drew on the Ideas of a small but influential group of thinkers called the Neoconservatives, Irving Kristol.being one of them.

"Government is not the solution to our problem...Government is the problem" : Ronald Reagan critisazing the government for its overspending on welfare since the "New Deal" was adopted and put into action in the 1930s. Ronald Reagan jest that "Years of "New Deal-style-tax-and-spend programs had created a federal government that reminded him of a baby as a creature who was all appetite at the one end, with no sense of responsibility at the other.

"Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI): Star Wars as it was commonly called, was the "astrodome" defense shield proposed by President Reagan, which was going to be composed of orbiting satellites with the capability of shooting down any missile threat before it was anywhere close to the United States airspace by using energy weapons. SDI however was more of bluff than a real defense system, President Reagan realized that SDI was way too expensive to be constructed with the economy the US had at the time and the technology to build the system was decades away. however that was not Reagan;s objective. His objective was to was to make the Soviet Union's leaders he had that capability and they would have to come to the negation table. Reagan's gamble paid off, 

Glasnost: Glasnost or "openness," was a one of two Soviet reforms propose by Soviet President Michael Gorbachev. The aim of Glasnost was "to ventilate the secretive, repressive stuffiness of the Soviet society by introducing free speech and a measure of political liberty."

Perestroika: Perestroika or "restructuring" was one of two reforms in the Soviet Union ( the other being Glasnost) proposed by Soviet President Michael Gorbachev. The purpose of Perestroika was to " revive the moribund Soviet economy by adopting many of the free-market practices of Capitalist West, exempli gratia: The profit motive and an end to subsidized prices."

"Reaganomics:" Reaganomics was the economic policy during the Reagan administration. Reaganomics was compose of tax-cuts and government spending on Military defense contracts. The logic behind it was that the tax-cuts would stimulate the economy so much that the Military spending was was not going to cause a huge deficit. As a matter of fact the US had an additional debt of $2 trillion by the end of the Reagan administration, more than all of Reagan's presidential predecessors combined.

[m. r. giorgio]

That is fine:

For your quiz define and explain the importance of:

Glastnost

Perestroika

The New Right

SDI

Thanks

[Joshua Jones]

Iago or all of us?

Yours truly, El Josue.