Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981 and re-elected in 1985. He entered US presidency after the Détente policy of 1962 to 1979, a policy that he considered as being a sign of American weakness and vulnerability. In a 1981 conference, he said: "So far détente's been a one-way street that the Soviet Union has used to pursue its own aims. Their goal must be the promotion of world revolution and a one world communist or socialist state." Instead of the Détente, Reagan wished for a peace built by America’s economic and military power.
However, Ronald Reagan, U.S president between 1981-1989, was the most significant political leader to influence the ending of the Cold War. Reagan was able to encourage the end of the Cold War, more so than Gorbachev, through his unrelenting war on communism. He did this through his attitudes, actions towards the Soviet arms race and foreign policies. The way in which Ronald Reagan acted on his negative attitudes towards communism and his desire to destroy it, displays how he, more so than Gorbachev, influenced the end of the Cold War. Reagan, even before his presidency was displaying his anti-communist stance.
This was also problematic because in 1981, Sandinista-supported Marxist guerrillas launched an offensive against the government of El Salvador, which was pro-American (Russell, 2010). The President Reagan did not want to see the Soviet Union’s communist influence grow more than it already had, which propelled him into action. What came from this fear of the spread of communism is what we now know as the “Reagan Doctrine”. According to the Historian’s Office at the U.S. Department of State, The “Reagan Doctrine” was the policy of supporting anti-Communist insurgents wherever
The movie, Argo, is loosely based off the rescue of six American diplomats during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. The movie features both historical accuracies and inaccuracies. The beginning of the movie starts off showing a very accurate portrayal of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and how it came about. Just like in the movie, the crisis started all because of the US backing of an operation that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who they feared favored the soviets. The US then backed the Shah, who took over as an absolute monarch in Iran, using violent suppression to put down any opposition.
So, America tried to completely control them. The united States put them on reservations and were able to control them almost completely. America was able to achieve manifest Destiny. America was also able to establish Alliance and Trade with other countries. But America was not ready to go to War.America started to Imperialize other countries.America wanted power.
On the other hand, I think that our government has the right to do everything in it’s power to ensure our safety, including spying on those in countries who have threatened our own. If the NSA could have taken a closer look or had more information about Hazmi and Midhar’s plan to travel to the United States, their trip would have never been successful. The NSA needs to focus their attention more to the other countries instead of basically wasting all of their time with U.S. citizens, and maybe slips like letting terrorist into our homeland wouldn’t happen. They are getting their systems blown up with information that is useless to them from Americans. If they didn’t have to spend the time to sort through all of America’s “evidence,” then they would probably be able to seek out and confirm the terroristic threats and evidence coming from outside of the
George Washington expressed a good point when he said “This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its roots in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed.” Washington is saying that as a human being in any government or in any argument, there are going to be several different good ideas, however there not all going to work. He believed that the division of the American people and government would cause foreign influence and corruption.
1953 marked the US’s decision to become an ally with the Shah, the leader of Iran. The United State’s tie with the Shah involved using Iran’s oil wealth for economic development, furthermore he purchased billions of dollars worth of weapons of security from the US. In 1979 the monarchy was overthrown by radical Islams that were supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini, a Shia Muslim religious scholar. The motive of the Iranian students was to demonstrate their rebellion against the Shah, in which their demand was the return of the Shah for trial then execution, additionally they asked that the US stay out of their country’s internal affairs. Carter’s approach imposed the protection of the American hostages but also ensuring the alliance with Iran, this had a negative response that affected him being reelected.
People went from shocked hearing about the sex scandal to being extra supportive of the same president overnight. The president was caught in a sex scandal almost losing his chance of reelection which was his diversionary incentive. He started a war, international crisis, with Albania in order to divert the public attention as well as attain their support. Democracy, the ideology that capitalist nations have been vigorously luxuriating, meant citizens (individuals) enjoy equal partaking in the decision making. Such form of government protects the rights of individuals and enables them to exercise political freedom.
This posed a threat to the greater freedom of world capitalism as an open market would require the dismantling of trade barriers and spheres of influence. To the communists capitalism was seen as being responsible for the division of society in