Reagan Doctrine

Examples of Reagan Doctrine in the following topics:

• The Defense Buildup and the "Evil Empire"

  • Reagan initiated a large build-up of the American military with the intention of defeating the Soviet Union in an arms race.
  • The foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration from 1981 to 1989 was characterized by a strategy of "peace through strength."
  • As part of the policies that became known as the Reagan Doctrine, the United States also offered financial and logistics support to the anti-communist opposition in central Europe and took an increasingly hard line against socialist and communist governments in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua.
  • Reagan ordered a massive buildup of the United States Armed Forces and implemented new policies toward the Soviet Union.
  • Under a policy that came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine, Reagan and his administration provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements in an effort to manipulate governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America away from communism and toward capitalism.

• NATO and the Militarization and Interventions Abroad

  • The "Reagan Doctrine" offered support to anti-communist opposition in central Europe and worked against socialist and communist governments.
  • The foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
  • As part of the policies that became known as the Reagan Doctrine, the United States also offered financial and logistics support to the anti-communist opposition in central Europe and took an increasingly hard line against socialist and communist governments in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua.
  • Ambassador Wilson had been President Reagan's personal envoy to the Pope since 1981.
  • Reagan administration officials saw the apartheid government as a key anti-communist ally.

• The New Right

  • Supply side economics dominated the Reagan Era.
  • With Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980 the modern American conservative movement took power.
  • Reagan's ideas were largely espoused and supported by the conservative Heritage Foundation, which grew dramatically in its influence during the Reagan years, extended to a second term by the 1984 presidential election, as Reagan and his senior aides looked to Heritage for policy guidance.
  • Reagan labeled the former Soviet Union the "evil empire. " Conservatives also supported the Reagan Doctrine, under which the U.S. provided military and other aid to insurgency movements resiting governments aligned with the Soviet Union.
  • Supply side economics dominated the Reagan Era.

• Regulation of Broadcast Media

  • In 1949, the FCC enacted the Fairness Doctrine for the purpose of ensuring balanced and fair coverage of all controversial issues by a broadcast station.
  • During the 1980s, the Reagan Administration pressured the FCC to eliminate the Fairness Doctrine, but was unsuccessful in its attempts.

• The Monroe Doctrine

  • The Monroe Doctrine opposed efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America.
  • President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress.
  • Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan.
  • The intent and impact of the Monroe Doctrine persisted—with only minor variations—for almost two centuries.
  • President James Monroe put forth the Monroe Doctrine, written by John Quincy Adams, in 1823.

• The Open Door Policy

  • The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the Americas in 1823.
  • President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh-annual State of the Union Address to Congress.
  • The term "Monroe Doctrine" itself was coined in 1850.
  • Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and many others.
  • The intent and impact of the Monroe Doctrine persisted with only minor variations for more than a century.

• The Cold War and Containment

  • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by United States diplomat, George F.
  • Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
  • President Ronald Reagan (1981–89), denouncing the Soviet state as an "evil empire", escalated the Cold War and promoted rollback in Nicaragua and Afghanistan.
  • Kennan was the diplomat behind the doctrine of containment.
  • Discuss the doctrine of Containment and its role during the Cold War

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The Reagan Administration

  • Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989.
  • As president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives.
  • Reagan left office in 1989.
  • Such a program, Reagan warned his listeners, was the first step to the nation’s demise as a free society.
  • Compare and contrast the policies of President Reagan from those of President Carter.

• Containment

  • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F.
  • Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
  • President Ronald Reagan (1981–89), denouncing the Soviet state as an "evil empire," escalated the Cold War and promoted rollback.
  • This pledge became known as the Truman Doctrine.
  • The Soviet Union's first nuclear test in 1949 prompted the National Security Council to formulate a revised security doctrine.