Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. This was the second successive election in which the incumbent president was defeated, after Carter himself defeated Gerald Ford four years earlier in 1976.

In the general election, Carter ran as an outsider and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford. Carter lost the general election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan in an electoral landslide.

Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate, in a landslide victory, winning 525 electoral votes and 58.8 percent of the popular vote. No other candidate in United States history has ever matched Reagan’s electoral vote total in a single election.

What happened in the 1980 presidential election? Reagan won about 51 percent of the popular vote, and Republicans gained control of the Senate for the first time since 1955.

• Cutting fed deficit – accompanied by budget bill + proposal for cuts on domestic spending.
• Personal + business tax reductions.
• Deregulation in industry, state + local gov.
• Planned control of money supply to keep inflation down while expanding economy.

(Republican) President Bob Dole and Vice President Jack Kemp. Issues: domestic concerns, Social security, education, and the economy.

On election day, Eisenhower won a solid majority of the female vote. Eisenhower campaigned by attacking “Korea, Communism, and Corruption”—that is, what the Republicans regarded as the failures of the outgoing Truman administration to deal with these issues.

How did nonpolitical artists in the United States become weapons in the cultural Cold War? Their work was used in an exhibit commissioned by the State Department to illustrate the freedom of expression that artists in the United States were allowed.

For example, the art used as propaganda for the communist Eastern Bloc was characterized largely as Socialist realism, which included work that displayed clearly defined political content and a “heroic style.” [3] Socialist realism was largely defined by artists using realistic styles in order to create extremely …

The Korean War, Vietnam War, and a number of other armed conflicts, during which both sides either funded one side of the war or fought directly against a communist or capitalist force, are all considered Cold War proxies.

Cold War espionage was focused on gaining an advantage in information about the enemies’ capabilities, especially related to atomic weaponry. During the Cold War, information was a key commodity.

The Marshall Plan was designed to prevent the further advancement of Soviet power in Europe. If the U.S.S.R. was allowed to extend its influence into Western Europe, then only the Atlantic would stand between it and the United States.