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Ronald Reagan’s U.S.S.R. Foreign Policy: In eight pages this paper analyzes the foreign policy of U.S. 40th President Ronald Reagan with the focus being on the U.S.S.R., examining various events and their causes, and the policy reactions that resulted. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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ebb since the Vietnam War. President Jimmy Carters foreign policy of conciliation appeared to be strengthening the Communist umbrella of the United Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Public opinion
was favoring a tougher foreign policy stance against the Soviet Union, more specifically the Brezhnev Doctrine. As envisioned by then-General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, the U.S.S.R. would continue its Soviet
expansion without relinquishing any of the territories it acquired in the process to the West (DSouza, 2003). While the United States increasingly withdrew from the global arena, still from
the foreign policy fiasco known as the Vietnam War, the U.S.S.R. seemed to be winning the Cold War. Within a period of six years, the Soviet Union had expanded
to include Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Grenada, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and South Yemen, and was making significant inroads in South America (DSouza, 2003). Furthermore, the U.S.S.R. had
stockpiled "the most formidable nuclear arsenal in the world," which included intermediate range missiles known as SS-20s, which were strategically aimed at major cities (DSouza, 2003, p. 36). At
this time, the North American Treaty Organization seemed like David as opposed to the forceful dominance of the Warsaw Pact. In
1980, former actor and two-time governor of California Ronald Reagan took the world stage as he opposed Jimmy Carters reelection bid. His landslide election convinced Reagan the the cornerstone
of his foreign policy must feature the U.S.S.R., which he initially envisioned in the narrow-minded Cold War perspective as an enemy of democracy with a covert agenda. The first
challenge Reagan faced after his January 1981 inauguration was to restore Americas badly battered international prestige (Busch, 1997). Reagan believed that Carters support of d?tente had contributed to the
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