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Reagan Flashcards

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Reagan initial thoughts

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  • elected due to anti-communist vibe in US

- Reagan believed Detende was a failure

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Reagan Anti-Soviet policies

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  • defense spending increase 13%
  • new nuclear weapon developmedn
  • Strategic Defense Intivative (SDI) 1983
  • Reagan Doctrine
  • aggresive language towards soviets; ‘evil empire’, ‘forces of evil in thsi world’
  • condamnent of 007 plane shot down
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Reagan Doctrine

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  • assistance given to anti-communist insurgets as well as anti-communist governments (e.g. right wing governemtn support in El Slvador)
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SDI

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Strategic Defense Initiative 1983; “Star Wars”

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Micheal MacGwire

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believed that Regans played an important role, but it was more that his views were anti-nuclearist which convinced Gorbachev eot negage in summits with him

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