Reagan Administrations - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
President Reagan had the same anticommunist passion in the 1980s that had been common in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the pre-Vietnam War days of the Cold War. Determined to face down the Soviet Union, he undertook an ambitious defense program, expanding the navy, updating weapons systems, and developing ambitious new ones, in the hope of gaining the strategic advantage. Fear of Communist advance influenced his policy towards Latin American policy too, where he supported all anticommunist regimes, even if they were authoritarian, and opposed all regimes that accepted Soviet or Cuban aid. Like his predecessors he found it difficult to make the Middle East fit into this ideological framework, but like them he too was forced to engage in Middle East maneuvering because of the worldwide importance of the area's oil supplies.
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