THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGANS FOREIGN POLICY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Reagan Doctrine
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Detente
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Peace
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The war started in the late summer of 1978 as a general uprising against the efforts of the communist Khalq government’s efforts to force Soviet-style socialism on a deeply conservative, religious country.
Detailed explanation-2: -The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan as an integral Cold War struggle, and the CIA provided assistance to anti-Soviet mujahideen rebels through the Pakistani intelligence services in a program called Operation Cyclone.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States and its European allies, guided by their own doctrine of containment, sharply criticized the Soviet move into Afghanistan and devised numerous measures to compel Moscow to withdraw.
Detailed explanation-4: -After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states began a decades-long struggle for supremacy known as the Cold War.