What major historical events do you remember?
The Cold War showed no sign of ending. Arms control advocates wanted a nuclear freeze agreement between Russia and the United States. The largest mass demonstration in American History.
In 1982 the United States experienced the worse recession since the Great Depression. By November of 1983 there were nine million people unemployed. Businesses closed, people lost their homes, farmers lost their land. I remember eating a lot of wild meat during this time. My parents having 5 hungry mouths to feed. The Reagonomnics was popular.
Reagan and many others believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened freedom everywhere. As a result the Reagan administration was eager to provide financial and military aid to anti-communist governments and insurgences around the world.
In November 1986 the White House illegally sold arms to Iran in an effort to win the freedom of the U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
The Berlin Wall had long divided the German city into eastern, communist held half and a western democratic half was torn down by ecstatic crowds in 1889 two years later the Soviet Union collapsed.
I find it ironic that America was fighting against communism in the 1980’s and today, most young people in America are fighting for communism.
Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, which advocates class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Communism as well as socialism advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the government. Basically it kills the American Dream, No matter How hard a person works they will stay poor and everything is controlled by the government.
From Pity to Praise 