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Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, on 6 February 1911. He began his acting career while studying economics at Eureka College. It started in the world of show when he got a job as a sports caster in a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa, attracted by his distinctive voice, WHO hired him as a radio announcer baseball games for the Cubs in Chicago, his specialty was creating play by play accounts of games that the station received by wire. On a trip with Chicago Cubs in 1937, Reagan was for a screen test with Warner Brothers and was a success, the study of signing him on a seven one-year contract. Mainly limited to B-movies, which made almost twenty movies in the space of two years. However, in 1939, was thrown into the Tearjerker Bette Davies, which Dark Victory Gipp, hence the nickname that would stay with him for the rest of your life - The Gipper. During World War II, he served as captain is not active in the Air Corps Army, producing a series of training films, was not sent abroad for being shortsighted. Returning to Hollywood in 1947, began a term of five years as president of the Screen Actors Guild. It was during this period Reagan became an active voice in the politics of Hollywood, speaking out against the influence communism in the film industry. Difficulties in obtaining more film roles, he moved to television in 1954, becoming the host of the series of General Electric Theater. Part of their contract involved talking on the soles of General Electric, wrote his own speeches that became more and more political, finally becoming too controversial for the pleasure of the company and was fired in 1962.
His entry into politics came when he made a televised speech in support of Barry Goldwater's candidacy for the presidential nomination in 1964. In 1966, Reagan defeated Pat Brown to become governor of California in its election manifesto, has included imposing the ten percent wage cuts, to send the welfare bums back to work "and to quell anti-war and anti-protests establishment student at Berkeley. However, once in office he found that had to compromise their ideals - actually raised taxes, had to accept an increase in abortion rights and increased spending on higher education. He was reelected to a second term in 1969, makes it even more compromises with the Democrats, usually presents the more liberal side of its policy towards its quest for the Republican nomination for president in 1976. That supply does not, said during his campaign their fears of re-armament of Russia and the fact that America is facing economic obsolescence due to taxes and business regulation and social chaos by demand social welfare dependency. During his 1980 presidential campaign against President Jimmy Carter, these problems are amplified because of Carter about his time on defense and welfare, due to a widespread, if not a tide of feeling completely committed conservative, Ronald Reagan won. After just over a year in office, Reagan was the victim of an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr., a Reagan bullet missing heart by an inch, but the hole in the left lung was the effect of rising popularity among voters. Was presented widespread tax cuts, increased defense spending, cuts in education budgets and welfare, business deregulation and tighter control over government information. A belligerent rhetoric of the United States increased demand for new and is unresolved priorities of governments around the world.
When this rhetoric was followed by a threat of invasion of Nicaragua and an actual invasion of Grenada, North Atlantic affairs were in disarray. His foreign policy is defined by the great antipathy toward the Soviet Union, which he called the "rule of evil. "Reagan presided over a huge military power, spending more than $ 2 billion in strengthening the armed forces. Moreover, Reagan Doctrine offered support to the anti-Soviet guerrillas anywhere in the world, which led the United States participate in covert operations in Central America Africa, Middle East and Afghanistan. Congressional hearings in 1987 revealed that the Reagan administration had to raise funds through the sale of arms to Iran to finance revolutionary activities against against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. The polarity of Reagan collapsed as a result of these findings. It was not until reached an agreement with Mikhail Gorbachev to reduce short-range missiles and intermediate was restored his popularity. The Reagan administration argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the posterior end of the Cold War was a direct result of U.S. military spending and covert operations, this claim is disputed by commentators credit to Gorbachev's reforms and long-term structural problems in the Russian economy. On the domestic front, the Reagan revolution had predicted in 1980 to take place - however, a combination of conservative dogma, practical action and mastery of the media said was the love of public, although most voters do not agree with their policies.
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