How Did Ronald Reagan's Influence On American Society

There were two significant leaders during the 1980’s that influenced American society by establishing conservative government. Their conservative thinking influenced the United States as well as countries abroad America.

The first president, the one who returned the idea of bringing back conservatism to the United States, was Ronald Reagan. His first objective was to improve the nation’s economy, so when he was elected in 1981, he immediately began to uphold his promises he has made during the campaign. In order to do so, he has raised a program,which was later embraced as “Reaganomics“. His idea was based on on the theory of supply-side economics. Reagan has also nominated fellow Conservative Judge Sandra Day O’Connor of Arizona to serve as the first woman in the Supreme Court.

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But Oliver North supported that funding the Contras was morally correct and, therefore, appropriated funds taken from a secret arms sale that had been made to encourage the release of the hostages held in Lebanon. This activity became known as the Iran-Contra Affair and caused tremendous blame for President Reagan.

Reagan has also improved the relationship with the Soviet Union in his second term in office. President Reagan’s conservative leading set a base for the upcoming president – President George Herbert Walker Bush.

The scene in 1991 brought slowly-approaching breakdown of the Communist government. Before the complete failure of communism, the Berlin Wall in Germany fell down causing the Soviet Union to sign many agreements with the United States to signify the end of the Cold War. The same year, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) was signed in order to reduce the Soviets supplies of long-range nuclear