How Did Reagan Justify The Cold War?

President Reagan revived military programs that Carter had cut, as well as restart the arms race (Schultz, 2013). His efforts would restart the Cold War. Reagan would provide financial aid to developing anticommunist countries, such as El Salvador, which would become known as the Reagan Doctrine. During this time the Soviet Union’s economy had begun to collapse. This was the beginning of the end of the Cold War. In 1980 s series of strikes were staged by shipworkers in Poland. These strikes led to the first independent labor union in a communist country. During Reagan’s second term a new Soviet premier, Gorbachev, took office. Gorbachev wanted to fix the Soviet Union’s financial problems, therefore slowed down production of nuclear weapons and removed …show more content…
Hezbollah terrorists would kidnap American educators and missionaries and the following year use a suicide bomber to attack the barracks in Beirut and kill 241 Marines. There were other problems in the Middle East that arose, such as the fighting between Iran and Iraq over waterway control. In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, countries such as Poland, Hungary and Romania overthrew their communist regimes and declared their independence. To follow, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed into 15 independent states such as Russia and Ukraine. This was the end of the Cold War.

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