Reagan Administration: A Brief Summary

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In the beginning of the Reagan presidency, tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States where at an all-time high. Reagan entered office with a deep mistrust of the soviets, which he fondly refers to as the “evil empire”. In late 1983 the Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was assassinated and in his place Marxist government was erected. During the establishment of said government Cuban troops with the help of soviet funding, created an airfield that allowed large military like aircraft. This was done with much despair on Reagan’s administration. In order to curb the spread of communism in the west the Reagan administration invade Grenada killing and capturing some seven hundred and fifty Cuban troops and established a pro-American …show more content…
Hence the efforts in Vietnam, the Korean peninsula, and the aid given to freedom fighters in Afghanistan, all of which happened during the cold war. In the post-World War II era, the world was left with two super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But at opposite ends in the way they lead their countries, the soviets were a communist society looking to expand the their manifest and the united states a capitalist state looking to be the worlds “police” in a sense.
Because the United States disagreed with the Soviet Union way of life, it was felt necessary to stop both the forceful and non-forceful implementation of the communist manifest. Of the presidents during the cold war period Reagan to took things to an all new level. The Reagan doctrine is an example of the four P’s in effect harmony; power, peace, prosperity and
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However in every situation the United States were very important key players, weather it was in the Middle East, Africa, South America, or Asia, the United States played a key role in the anti-communist movement. However on the domestic end of things most of the governmental branches of governments where left out of the loop. This was evident in the lack of knowledge of the government officials during the Iran-Contra hearings. In hindsight the Reagan doctrine could be considered a great success for the United States due to the fact that it brought forward the end of the forty year cold war and the halted spread of communism. With the constant push of the Reagan administration to further the nuclear capability of the united states lead the soviet union to erroneously spend in order to keep up, this lead the soviets to become bankrupt. With great efforts from the Reagan administration the United States was victorious. However with success on the communist front came with many other issues. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union put Europe in deep turmoil in the Balkan region. This lead to multiply civil wars and even genocide. So it could be ask was the fall of the Soviet Union a positive action. On the American front those that received aid from the United States caused problems both domestically and