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Reagan ‘Cold War Warrior’ - Coggle Diagram
Reagan ‘Cold War Warrior’
M: Reagan announced a 53% increase in military spending over the next five years amounting to $180 billion – the greatest ever military build-up in peacetime.
This money was used to develop new weaponry including the Stealth bomber and Trident submarines.
Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), a project in space which would shoot down Soviet nuclear warheads if they were fired at the USA.
Military Build Up
Alliances with other countries
Margaret Thatcher, "The Iron Lady" by the USSR. She allowed the USA to set up missile bases in Britain.
In France and Germany, Francois Mitterand and Helmut Kohl also gave their support to Reagan's aggressive stand
Support for anti-communists
the President sent financial and military assistance to anti-communist resistance movements around the world.
He supported the Contras, right-wing guerrilla group fighting the communist government in Nicaragua
sent troops into Granada, without even informing Mrs. Thatcher
This policy was controversial, but again put pressure on the USSR to spend yet more money and time
Speeches
In 1981
Said communism was "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat"
In 1982
Predicted communism would end up on "the ash-heap of history"
In 1983
He called the USSR an "evil empire...the focus of all evil in the modern world"