USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -’the counter-revolution’) were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which came to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took approximately seventy Americans captive.

Detailed explanation-3: -U.S. policy on Nicaragua began to favor support for anti-Sandinista “Contras", because most people involved in the U.S. intelligence operations, including Richard Nixon feared that “defeat for the rebels would probably lead to a violent Marxist guerrilla movement in Mexico and in other Central American countries."

Detailed explanation-4: -Congress, and a majority of the American public, had not been supportive of the Reagan administration’s efforts to topple the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Reagan began a “secret war” to bring down the Nicaraguan government soon after taking office in 1981.