Description

Looking for some help in covering the Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush years with your U.S. History students? This ready to go slide deck (available as both a PowerPoint and Google Slides) begins with the 1980 Presidential election and covers Reagan’s 1st and 2nd terms & Bush’s single term. The 182 slides include major domestic events from 1981-1993 like Reaganomics, tax & Social Security reform, the AIDS epidemic, economic recessions (Black Monday!) and economic recovery. It also covers foreign affairs including the Iran-Contra Affair, the end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War. It wraps up with the 1992 election of Bill Clinton.

Not only does this download include the slide deck, but it also includes 19 pages of fill in the blank guided notes to keep your students engaged and on task!

It’s also flexible! The text in the slide deck is editable AND an editable PowerPoint version of the fill in the blank guided notes (without the fancy fonts and clip art) is included! You can add something specific to the slide deck and notes that your state standards include or delete something that your curriculum doesn’t cover. You can also add more blanks to the guided notes or take some away.

As if that wasn’t enough! The download includes both print and digital guided notes (Google Slides and fillable PDF options) to give you even more classroom flexibility.

Its flexible design is purposefully created to make your life easier!

What’s included:
✅ No prep PowerPoint & Google Slides decks
✅ Guided fill in the blank notes for students
✅ Editable PowerPoint version of the student notes
✅ Answer key
✅ Digital versions of the guided notes

Included topics:
✏️Elections of 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992
✏️ New Right & Regan Revolution
✏️ Reganomics (Supply-Side & Trickle Down Economics)
✏️Assassination Attempt
✏️Economic Recovery Act
✏️Government Spending
✏️Grace Commission
✏️Social Security Reform
✏️Deregulation
✏️PATCO strike & labor unions
✏️Recession & Recovery
✏️Widening of the gap between rich & poor
✏️Supreme Court appointments (Reagan & Bush)
✏️Strategic Defense Initiative
✏️Iran-Iraq War
✏️Bombings in Lebanon
✏️Contras & Sandinistas in Nicaragua
✏️El Salvador
✏️Invasion of Grenada
✏️Budget & Trade Deficits
✏️Gramm Rudman-Hollings Act
✏️Tax Reform Act of 1984
✏️’Just Say No’ Campaign
✏️AIDS epidemic
✏️Immigration
✏️Black Monday Wall Street Crash
✏️INF Treaty
✏️Libya & Operation El-Dorado Canyon
✏️Iran Contra Affair
✏️Savings and Loan Crisis
✏️Americans with Disabilities Act
✏️Los Angeles Riots
✏️Operation Just Cause (Panama)
✏️Cold War Ends
✏️Changes in Europe
✏️START & START II
✏️Soviet Union become Russian Federation
✏️Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield, Operations Desert Storm & Desert Sabre
✏️NAFTA

What’s included in the download:
⭐️Editable PowerPoint presentation (182 slides, text is editable but the images are not)
⭐️Google Slides presentation version (182 slides, text is editable but the images are not)
⭐️PDF Guided Notes (19 pages, not editable)
⭐️PDF Guided Notes key (19 pages, not editable)
⭐️Editable Guided Notes (19 pages, created in PowerPoint without the fancy clip art and fonts)
⭐️Fillable PDF Guided Notes (19 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Adobe)
⭐️Google Slides Guided Notes (19 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Slides)

✅Check out the preview to get a closer look at what’s included!

✨This resource is included in the following larger bundles:✨
* U.S. History PowerPoint and Guided Notes Bundle #2 from 1877
* U.S. History 1877 to Present Bundle
* U.S. History Mega Bundle: Exploration to Present