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Reagan Foreign Policy Case Study

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1. I believe that Reagan’s first term as the president is a result of the work administrations prior to his did the opening of China by Nixon and other administrations keeping those doors opened allowed Reagan to focus on the Soviet Union. I do not believe that his presidency was a watershed, his administration focused on the domestic and foreign equally. Trickle-down economics allowed for corporations and CEOs to pay less in taxes and did work for a short time, unfortunately greed took over, and moves to cut cost and increase shareholder profit led to the outsourcing of jobs which plagues the US work force today. Large increases in the military spending left the US better prepared to fight conventional battles on the eastern front; however, …show more content…

Reagan foreign policies moved away from Détente to bargain from a position of power, this led to the buildup of the military and the technological advances in weaponry. Programs like Strategic Defense Initiative rendered the use of IBCM ineffective (in theory), the advances in battlefield weaponry, M1 Abrahams, and Tomahawk cruise missiles, evened the odds against the larger Soviets forces and in some cases gave the United States the advantage. Many people give Reagan credit for bringing about the collapse of the Iron Curtain, however the Soviet Union’s economic policies restricted growth and led to a huge amount of discord among the population. The advantage that Reagan had was the Soviets were struggling in Afghanistan and in 1986 the Chernobyl incident which spread radioactive particles over the Western portions of Russia and Eastern Europe. The estimated cost of Chernobyl is 18 Billion rubles (1986) over 200 million in today’s dollars, and led to the evacuation of over 300,000 people in what history will determine the worst nonmilitary nuclear event to date. These three factors directly attributed to collapse of the Soviet Union. I believe that we managed it well, however we could have been more diligent in how we approached the asymmetric fight, our leaders largely ignored what the Israeli and British militaries lessons learned during their struggles against the Hamas and the IRA and led to the events of 911. The US missed opportunities, by a lack of involvement in the former Soviet Republics like Bosnia, Chechnya, and Georgia. The diplomatic lessons learned from those events have a direct impact on the current US

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1. Identification and evaluation of sources This investigation, examining certain events of the Cold War, will answer the question: To what extent did President Ronald Reagan’s actions aid in the end of the Cold War? The Cold War was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union that took place from 1947 to 1991. During that time several United States presidents took office, one of the last being Ronald Reagan whose actions have been argued to have been more influential than the rest and impactful toward the downfall of the ongoing war with the Soviet Union.

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There is a great deal of risk in the strategy spoken by President Reagan because of the imbalance between ends, ways and means. Lykke provides a conceptual framework and vocabulary for describing risk in strategy in his “three-legged stool” model. His main point is that a balanced strategy is solid, but if ends, ways, or means are not aligned, the strategy incurs risk (Reading C203 D, p. 4). In the spoken strategy there is especially an imbalance between the ends, ways and means to the desired end of a unified and free Europe. The ways in the strategy is only directed towards the city of Berlin.

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Presidential Power Ronald Reagan served as America’s 40th president. Reagan managed to cut taxes, increase defense spending, negotiate a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War. I think that president Reagan used his presidential powers properly in order to achieve what needed to be done. Ronald Reagan was president as the Cold War was raging worse than it had ever before. Reagan used his executive power, Commander in Chief, to put up resistance against Mikhail Gorbachev and push his defensive strategy.

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The policies made by the Reagan administration strengthen the United States because it brought the Reagan Revolution, he brought Reaganomics, and he is the President who put an end to The Cold War. The Reagan Revolution was term given to the time period in which President Ronald Reagan served as commander in chief in the US. The characteristics of this time period were that he believed that the government had too much power and he wanted to focus more on “freedom”. Like President Nixon, Reagan like the idea of New Federalism, which gave the states the option to obtain federal programs and tax revenues.

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4- During the Reagan presidency he faced a number of significant issues both domestically and abroad. One major domestic issue Reagan faced was the economy. At the beginning of Reagan's presidency the US was facing high inflation and high unemployment rates. Reagan's economic policies known as “reaganomics' ' included tax cuts, deregulation and increased military finds. While these policies were controversial they did lead to a period of economic growth and low inflation in the mid 1980’s.

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Reagan wanted to defeat the soviet union and had ways to do that because of the power he had over them, by military and other countries that were with him that only could make him succeed, military influence became accepted after the Reagan defeat because it was seen to be very successful and it is a good and

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As the president of United States of America it can be a little hard to make certain decisions. What the people want and what is for the best for them is very different. Yet this President is for. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were presidents of the United States, who may have done good or bad throughout their time serving in office. Both presidents will be compared to determine who brought the best for United States.

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Although, President Reagan doctrine transpired in Nigeria to supporting anti-Communists rebels, removing communist troops and overthrowing the communist government of Nigeria. Therefore, President Authorized the CIA to train the rebels on warfare tactics and funding anti-Communist insurgents in the fight against the Soviet Union. In 1982, Boland amendment restricted the CIA, Department of Defense operations in Nigeria and the cut off all funding to the freedom fighters. The Boland amendment did not restrain the president from supporting Contra rebels. Reagan told national security adviser Robert McFarlane.

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( Biography) To this day Reagan is considered by many to be one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He helped Bring an end to the era of communism. All of these things would not have happened if he had not been successful as an actor which shifted his political views. Ronald Reagan died in his home in 2006 at the age of

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During his service the economy improved and ended the cold war. This is a such great thing that he did, in ending the cold war. I think that he did improve the economy by everything he was changing and fixing. Reagan’s main importance was for us to win the cold war because he thought all people deserved to be free. I think that he worked really hard to win the cold war, because he cared about everyone.

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On the one hand, the tax cuts and deregulation did stimulate economic growth, and the country experienced a period of prosperity in the mid-to-late 1980s. Unemployment fell, and the stock market soared. Along with that many may say that Reagan's policies helped end the Cold War using the Reagan Doctrine in fact according to Edwards, “By the time Reagan left office in January 1989, the Reagan Doctrine had achieved its goal: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet system, publicly acknowledged the failures of Marxism-Leninism and the futility of Russian imperialism. In Margaret Thatcher’s words, Ronald Reagan had ended the Cold War without firing a shot.” On the other hand, the tax cuts also led to a ballooning federal deficit, and the benefits of the economic growth were not distributed evenly across the population.

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Roland Reagan came into the office during his first term hoping to use his administration to fight communism and end the Cold War. He finds out it was not easy as he thought. So, in his second term he turned to a different strategy getting to know someone like Gorbachev. The conservatives thought he was making a mistake. Roland Reagan’s success finally proved to the conservatives that his friendship with Gorbachev was not a dupe.

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During the time of Reagan’s presidency, the Soviet Union was the main priority for American foreign affairs. Therefore, Reagan’s religious beliefs led to a foreign policy that was surrounded by an anti-Soviet and anti-Communist

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In that year, Reagan spoke at Germany 's Berlin Wall. He told Gorbachev to tear it down and over two years later, Gorbachev gave in and the wall was torn down. Reagan 's leadership brought the international nightmare of the Cold War to a conclusion. Reagan also implemented the Reagan Doctrine. This provided aid to anti-communist movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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