Ronald Reagan President Biography Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States of America. His presidency lasted two terms, from 1981-1989. During his presidency he accomplished many things one of the main ones being the Reagan Revolution. Ronald Reagan's main concern during both of his terms was pledging to reinvigorate the american people and reduce reliance on the government. When Ronald Reagan took office january 20th, 1981, as a republican candidate, and was shot 69 days after he took office through an attempted assassination, but recovered and was released on April 11,1981. Reagan's behavior and how he carried himself throughout the incident only made him more popular. Through his victory of winning the first election he defeated walter mondale and geraldine ferraro. In the second election, …show more content…
When he first came into the office for the first time, he had a lot of build up to deal with from the cold war, still going on. He mainly had to worry about things escalating with the soviets. Ronald Reagan named the foreign policy “ the evil empire”, and through this policy was the Ronald Reagan Doctrine, america provided aid to anti- communist movements in africa, asia and latin america. Ronald Reagan in 1938 announced a strategic defense plan to develop space-based weapons to protect the US from the soviet nuclear missiles. After israel invaded the Lebanon Nation in june 1882, Ronald Reagan sent 800 Marines as a part of an international peacekeeping force. In october of 1883, suicide bombers attacked marine barracks in beirut, 241 americans died as a result. After the suicide bombers attack, being fairly recent, He ordered the US to invade Grenada, an island off the carribean, after the Marxist rebels over through the government. While all of this was happening, the Ronald Reagan administration still had to deal with its controversial and uneasy relationship with Libyan leader Muammar al-