Reagan socoming into office represented what i think Time Magazine is say iing here. A fresh start for so many people. Reagans hero was franklin roosevelt. Reagan was of a different party, but his hero was roosevelt because he grew up listening to him on the radio and saw in him a figure that would help restore hope to americans, the faith that better days ahead. Someone who retore stored a sense of can do spirit in americans and thats what reagan was all about. He came of age, not just in the shadow of the Great Depression and cold war, but in the shadow of the vietnam war, the disruptions of the 1970s and 1960s and for reagan, there had to be a better way. A more positive perspective. It was not enough to accept things as they were. There had to be a better way. He brought a muhao infusion of idealism that Many Americans were looking for after a decade, decade and a half following the vietnam war, the 1960s, when people were escaping rather than really seeking major fundamental chang
Conflict from u. S. Escalation in 1965 to the fall of saigon in 1975. He argues that the United States was in vietnam to prove the viability of capitalism and the american system of government. His class is about an hour, 15 minutes. So we talked about the kind of the leadup to the American Intervention of vietnam on tuesday. Were going to look at the war today. Before we kind of jump into the actual war, any questions concerning the stuff we covered on tuesday . No. I am that good, arent i . So i want you guys to pay especially good attention today, because as it turns out, this is the only thing im actually qualified to teach. [ laughter ] i didnt know there was a war in korea until i read the textbook with you guys. But the vietnam war is your thing. Ive tried to present concise history of the war and hopefully it makes some sense to you. So on tuesday, were talking about how starting in 1964, as a result of developments in hanoi, North Vietnam under its new leader starts to escalat
Teaches a class about the president Ronald Reagan and the end of the cold war. This class was taught online due to the coronavirus pandemic at the university of austin in texas provided the video. Okay lets go to our first slide if we could. Here we have Ronald Reagan. We talked in our last lecture about the disruptions of the 1960s, the changes in the 1970s. The social changes in the 1970s towards suburb besides a shun following the 1960s we talked about nixon and carter and the desire so Many Americans had for quiet, for silence, to escape, to escape the disruptions. To discuss escape the conflict, ronald raking coming into office in the 19 eighties, elected 1980 represented what Time Magazine is saying here. A fresh set for so many people. A sunny positive disposition. Ronald reagans hero was Franklin Roosevelt. Ronald reagan was of a Different Party but his hero was roosevelt because he grew up listening to him on the radio. I will talk more about that in a couple minutes. So in ro
His the real action really depends on the economy going well since hes a minority president that has he didnt get a majority the 1st time so i think youre seeing a lot of the election here and that things may die down. You know after the election season either kill him lose the election and somebody else will command by or will be reelected and then the all aim to get some sort of agreement with chinese perhaps its hard to say what will happen but certainly this there is rising tensions and hes also attacking the w. H. O. As a child as having the trying to use have too much influence and when its an International Organization its certainly theres a lot of questions that could be asked by the w. H. O. In its response but. Legitimate questions but i think that was probably not the time to do it and now we saw it. Yesterday where they were the countries china russia. The European Countries sided against the u. S. And its tomato into the organizations and that. Is trying to attack that as
The country deeper into chaos. This is our to international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. The belorussian interior ministry has confirmed several additional arrests strikes and demonstrations gripped the Country Police and belarus dispersed Peaceful Protesters outside the minsk tractor factory on wednesday morning dozens of people gathered near the entrance to greet and support workers on strike demanding that Alexander Lukashenko resigns protest over the disputed election are now into their 11th day heres what some of tuesdays rallies both for and against the president looks like. The situation in the country is very serious we are against unrest in our country i want to say one thing i stand here for valeries a president who did not condemn look. For the position so why. It should be condemned. I came here to support the protest because the only way to win is to keep getting out and keep showing our disagreement with the results of