HIST 2340W Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan Doctrine, Sandinista National Liberation Front
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Reagan star wars speech 1983 x need to prepared for possibility that the soviets would actually use their weapons. Intermediate forces treaty signed in washington gets rid of intermediate missiles in europe. Combat communism not just in russia, but throughout developing world nicaragua strength. Us supported samoza regime was overthrown by the left leaning sandinistas sandinistas wanted to carry out reform and weaken the grip of us on nicaragua reagan supported the contras, which had some of the leadership of the. Afghanistan money used to support training bases that trained them to overthrow the sandinista government believed liberals in congress not giving enough would blow up in reagan"s face in iran contra a air. Us had to do what it could to aid the opposition. East asia had very di erent dynamic in the 1980s reagan had di erent challenges there towards end of administration. Us supporting ferdinand marcos the typical right wing anti communist autocrat that the us supported.
