Return to Peace through Strength

Ronald Reagan: A Return to Patriotism and Family Values            List of all Presidents

Election of 1980 Reagan wanted to:

    1.  Restore the U.S. image at home and abroad

    2.  Free the hostages held in Iran

    3.  stop the spread and threat of Communism

    4.  lower taxes for Americans

 

The U.S. liberates Grenada
    Cuba's dictator Fidel Castro took  the island and so the U.S.
    sent in troops

 

 

 

 

 

 


An American soldier from the 82nd Airborne students from the St. George’s University on the island of Grenada after troops invaded the area.

Who was Sandra Day O'Connor?  p 268

First woman Supreme Court Justice

List two reasons the Soviet Union AKA
                 "the evil empire" collapsed p 269

What was another name for S.D.I.?

Strategic Defense Initiative

What is Communist Perestroika?

a restructuring of Communism

In the late 1980s Communism collapses in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and is replaced by Democracy.

List three parts to Reagan's legacy. p 269

 

Photo Credits:

 Reagan  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rr40.html

Iran Hostages: http://www.helis.com/featured/operations/iranhostages.jpg                   

Granada map :   tiscali.reference   http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/grenada_map.html

Grenada marine: Photo was released by the Pentagon in Washington.(AP/Wide World Photos)

Star Wars:         illustration from a report by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Space Commission.

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.

Remember : Recognizing, Recalling
Understand : Interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, explaining
Apply : Executing, implementing
Analyze : Differentiating, organizing, attributing
Evaluate : checking, critiquing
Create: generating, planning, producing