Chelsea Hanson Hanson 1
11 February 2013
Professor Lewis
DBRG 100 A
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan
Like any two people in the world Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan both have their own views about war, women’s rights, gay rights, foreign policy, and many other problems facing our country. These two presidents have greatly impacted our country since they were in office. Roosevelt and Reagan have helped shape our country into what it is today. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in New York. He went to Harvard University and Columbia Law
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A huge event all of us know was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This officially got us involved in World War II. Although Roosevelt didn’t like confliction he announced a global war. Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Illinois. He attended Eureka College and studied economics and sociology. As Reagan grew older his political views went from liberal to conservative. In 1966 he was elected governor of California then re-elected in 1970. In 1980 Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination then took office on January 20, 1981. He won the presidential race easily due to the inflation and secret of Americans in Iran. Only sixty-nine days later after he took office he was shot. While Reagan was in office the economy grew, inflation lessened, employment increased, and national defense was strengthened. He helped the economy by cutting taxes and government expenses. In 1984, Reagan won a second term due to his brilliance in his first. At the end of his presidency the nation had the longest period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression. Both Roosevelt and Reagan dealt with major events involving foreign affairs. During Reagans two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent, but sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. He attended meetings with Soviet
His policy of reaganomics, also known as supply-side economics, took two years to create a change in the United States economy, but was overall a success. He negotiated with the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to form the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) which reduced the global number of nuclear armaments. Reagan even appointed the first female Supreme Court justice- Sandra Day O’Connor. While Reagan did an incredible number of good things, he simply did not do other things. For example, he
Reagan increased defense spending. U.S. exports were falling, creating a negative balance of trade where the country was buying more from foreign countries than it was selling to them.
Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. He went to Eureka College and became a radio sports announcer. He also acted in 53 different films. (Bausum, Ann. Our Country's Presidents. 177) Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966 and served two terms. He married Jane Wyman in 1940 and had a daughter named Maureen and an adopted son named Michael. In 1948, they were divorced,
Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States who served in office from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989. Brought up in residential area Illinois, he turned into a Hollywood performing artist in his 20s and later served as the Republican legislative head of California from 1967 to 1975. Named the Great Communicator, the amiable Reagan turned into a mainstream two-term president. He cut charges, expanded safeguard spending, arranged an atomic arms diminishment concurrence with the Soviets and is attributed with conveying a faster end to the Cold War. Reagan, who survived a 1981 death endeavor, passed on at age 93 in the wake of doing combating Alzheimer's sickness.
Ronald Wilson Reagan took office on January 20th, 1981. Reagan served from 1981 to 1989. He served two terms and was president from 1981- 1989. President Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election and Walter Mondale in the 1984 election. He ran his first campaign mostly on President Carter 's shortcomings and failures. His campaign slogan was," Are you better off than you were four years ago?" His other slogan was," Lets make America great again." This clearly shows that his campaign strategy was mostly based on how America took a turn for the worst during Carter 's first term. He talked about how Carter dealt with the Iranian Hostage Crisis so poorly, which led to national embarrassment. Reagan promised an economic revival that
Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, Tampico, Illinois, Ronald was the second son of Jack and Nelle Reagan. He was born in a small apartment above the Pitney General Store but later moved with his family to number of small town so his dad could try to establish his small business. By the 1920 his family settled in Dixon, Illinois, where he grew to adulthood. As a teenager Ronald Regan was very active in after school activities, clubs, and an amazing swimmer. As a life guard in Lowell Park in Dixon on the treacherous Rock River, he saved about 77 people from drowning. He graduated from Dixon High School in 1928 and enrolled the following fall at Eureka College. After he graduated from Eureka in 1932, with a major in economics, he landed a job as a radio sportscaster at WOC in Davenport, Iowa. Thanks to that experience he learned many things and was able to meet with many different people who helped him start his career
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 to Jack and Nelle Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. The Reagan family moved to Dixon in 1920, where Ronald excelled in high school, earning an athletic scholarship to Eureka College. Ronald majored in economics and sociology without knowing how useful this decision would be in 1981. After graduating from Eureka in 1932 he got
As president, Reagan worked to bring back American exceptionalism, boost the economy, and terminate Communism. A president who famously accomplished more than he set forth to do, while some presidents have slid by succeeding in broken promises. Regardless, Reagan accomplished more in his two
Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Illinois. He was elected governor of California in 1966, and was re-elected in 1970. In 1980, Ronald Reagan won the presidential election for the Republican party. Reagan took office in 1981, but was shot early in his term. He recovered fairly quickly, and this attack made his popularity increase substantially. Reaganomics was a term to refer to the economic policies led by the President, including large tax reductions. He also led the War on Drugs in an attempt to reduce the amount of illegal drugs traded. In 1984, Reagan was re-elected as President for his second term. His second term was filled with a lot of foreign affair matters. Reagan helped to end the Cold War which had been laying low for
His tax cuts were innovative putting more money in businesses and everyday people’s pockets. With this money people bought more goods and services boosting the economy. On foreign policy he ended the Cold War fight with the Soviet Union and defeated Communism throughout the world. His economic policies, known as Reaganomics has a mixed track record because of the huge debt incurred by the nation, a majority of Americans still believed in Reagan’s conservative agenda. At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression. When Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, he had the highest approval rating of any president since Franklin
One of the many accomplishments of Reagan and why he had the biggest influence on the United States was because of Reaganomics. Reaganomics was this idea of controlling inflation and spurring economic growth through tax cuts, reduced growth in government spending, and reduced business regulation (Graphiq Inc. Editors).
Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan passed away June 5, 2004, and was buried in Simi Valley, California. He graduated from Eureka College in 1932 with a “Bachelor 's of Arts degree in social science and economics.”Before Mr. Reagan was president he was also an actor, and performed in 53 different movies. He was of the Christian religion. President Ronald Reagan was the 40th president, and part of the Republican party. The First Lady was Nancy Reagan, and the Vice President was George H.W. Bush while Ronald Reagan was in office. They were successful with two terms together from 1981 until 1989.
Ronald Reagan died June 5, 2004. Reagan was born February 6th 1911 in tampico Illinois. As a young kid Reagan's father would call him dutch because looked like a little fat dutchman. During his teenage years Reagan attended Dixon high school where he would graduate from in 1928. He would then go on to attend Eureka college where he would in a degree in economics and sociology. In 1937 Reagan landed his first big job by signing a seven year contract with Warner Bros. Over the next 27 years Reagan would appear in more than 50 films. In Reagan stepped into the political world by giving a very moving speech about a republican Presidential candidate named barry Goldwater. In 1968 Reagan was elected governor of california where he balanced the state
Reagan used a political strategy centered around the issue of bringing America back to its former glory, or “making America great again”. This won the hearts of the American people that were troubled by inflation. Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter. He also won the popular vote with a 51% majority. Due to his experience as an actor, Reagan cared a lot about his appearance in the eyes of the American people, and knew just how to win them over.
World War II was undoubtedly the biggest war of the 20th century. It was fought in the Pacific and in Europe. Early in the war the United States, which consisted of 48 states at the time, was not involved. Suddenly all that changed on the fateful morning of December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was bombed. This changed the course of the entire war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Congress to inform them of Japan's attacks on the United States, to get them to declare war, and to rally the American people against the evil powers that were threatening freedom.