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For Pol to Reagan
Review of Foreign Policy from Nixon to Reagan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |