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Reagan and Cold War
Ronald Reagan and the Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ronald Reagan | 40th President of the United States |
| October 25, 1983 (Operation Urgent Fury) | American troops to invade Grenada and liberate the island from its ruling Marxist dictator. |
| October 23, 1983. | Beirut barracks bombing resulted in the deaths of 241 American servicemen and the wounding of more than 60 others by a suicide truck bomber |
| Detente | is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is often used in reference to the general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1970s. |
| Reagan escalated the Cold War, accelerating a reversal from the policy of détente which began in 1979 following this event... | Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan |
| Margaret Thatcher | United Kingdom's prime minister together with Reagan denounced the Soviet Union in ideological terms |
| Reagan Doctrine | Reagan and his administration also provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements in an effort to "rollback" Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. |
| April 15, 1986, the U.S. launched a series of air strikes on ground targets in Libya. | Response to the bombing of a Berlin discothèque, resulting in the injuries of 63 American military personnel and death of one serviceman. |
| Iran-Contra Affair | In 1986, a scandal shook the administration stemming from the use of proceeds from covert arms sales to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua, which had been specifically outlawed by an act of Congress.[ |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. |
| June 12, 1987 | Berlin Wall Speech: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" |
| Between 1985 and 1988 | Gorbachev and Reagan held four summit conferences between 1985 and 1988: the first in Geneva, Switzerland, the second in Reykjavík, Iceland, the third in Washington, D.C., and the fourth in Moscow about nuclear disarmament. |
| Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty | Treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. |
| November of 1989 | The Berlin Wall was torn down. |
| December 3, 1989 | The Cold War was officially declared over at a Malta Summit. |
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