Reagan's America A Nation Reborn

The Act's most significant effect was that it allowed immigrants who had entered the U.S. illegally before Jan. 1, 1982 to apply for legal ... Reagan strongly believed that American ingenuity could conquer technological obstacles. This belief is what drove his pursuit of SDI, despite ... Breaking with the doctrine of “Containment," established during the Truman administration—President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy was based on John Foster ... After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.” Like Roosevelt before ... It was Reagan who revived the war on drugs, which for all intents and purposes, had become moribund under the administration of President Jimmy ... What President Reagan did instead of redistributing tax dollars was to revitalize the economy and unleash a period of sustained economic growth, ... Ronald Reagan shattered the illusions of détente by redefining the nature of the Cold War between the West and Soviet communism, and adopting a strategy that ... Reagan certainly did not let up on the criticisms of campus ... Corporate executives dabbling in public education had no dis- cernible influence on America's ... President Ronald Reagan, in a March 1983 speech, unveils his Strategic Defense Initiative that was intended to develop missile defense systems that would make ... Reagan's 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives: (1) reduce the growth of government spending, (2) reduce the marginal tax ...