HIS344Y1 Lecture 17: Lecture 17.doc
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Ronald reagan replaces carter as the second cold war begins. Ronald reagan understood the potential of the american economy; he was a capitalist, democratic. We just need to challenge the us to an economic race an economic competition and this will destroy them. He renounces d tente he rejects it as the wrong way to deal with the soviet union. He wanted to re-initiate containment" but add to it liberation". Support all political parties/groups that would work against communism. He initiated his own doctrine, the reagan doctrine. Any force that fights communism would find support in the united states, both political and military support; finances, training, weaponry everything to aid the overthrow of a communist system. They thought reagan would be open to discussion. When he came to power, the soviet foreign minister (gromyko) declared that there was no difference between this administration and the carter one.
