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.

• 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 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.

• The Election of 1980

  • After receiving the Republican nomination, Reagan selected George H.W.
  • Accordingly, Reagan promised an economic revival that would affect the entire population.
  • Reagan's showing in the October televised debate boosted his campaign.
  • Weeks before the election, Reagan had trailed Carter in most polls.
  • Reagan campaigns with wife Nancy and Senator Strom Thurmond (right) in South Carolina, 1980.

• 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.

• The Election of 1984

  • Reagan's success was aided by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981–1982.
  • In the national popular vote, Reagan received 58.8% to Mondale's 40.6%.
  • No candidate since then has managed to equal or surpass Reagan's 1984 electoral result.
  • Analysts of the election attributed the Republican victory to "Reagan Democrats", millions of Democrats who voted for Reagan, as in 1980.
  • They characterized such Reagan Democrats as southern whites and northern blue collar workers who voted for Reagan because they credited him with the economic recovery, saw Reagan as strong on national security issues, and perceived the Democrats as supporting the poor and minorities at the expense of the middle class.

• Free Enterprise Economics and Reaganomics

  • President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.
  • In response, Reagan presented his plan directly to the people.
  • Questions arose whether Reagan's policies benefited the wealthy more than those living in poverty, and many poor and minority citizens viewed Reagan as indifferent to their struggles.
  • Reagan also focused on deregulating industry and weakening the power of labor unions.
  • Reagan described the new debt as the "greatest disappointment" of his presidency.