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For Pol to Reagan
Review of Foreign Policy from Nixon to Reagan
Question | Answer |
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A statement that the US has a right to intervene anywhere in the world where there is a political insurrection, and thus combat the "evil empire" of the USSR;" represents a return to the early days of the cold war | Reagan Doctrine |
Site of pro-democracy protests against Chinese government; hundreds of students were massacred | Tiananmen Square |
Proposed system of space-based lasers as a defense against nuclear attack | Strategic Defense Initiative |
Groups that the CIA supported in Nicaragua to oppose the pro-communist Sandinistas; were secretly aided by Reagan's administration | Contras |
Agreement negotiated by Henry Kissinger during Nixon and Ford administrations to limit arms and nuclear missiles | SALT I |
Reaction of Carter to failure to agree with Brezhnev on the implementation of the SALT II agreement and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan | Olympic boycott |
Policy to reduce tensions with communist countries | Detente |
Agreement in 1979 between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev to limit arms; not ratified by Senate | SALT II |
Scandal in the Reagan administration in which they sold military equipment to Iran and used the proceeds to aid anti-Communist fighters in Nicaragua | Iran-Contra Affair |
Country that the Soviet Union invaded in 1979 | Afghanistan |
Removal of trade barriers between Canada, the US and Mexico | NAFTA |
An attempt to reduce the US's role as the world's policeman; says that the US can't do all the work but will "help where it makes a difference in our national interest and is considered in our interest." | Nixon Doctrine |