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THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGANS FOREIGN POLICY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Soviet Union leader ____ became good friends with President Ronald Reagan and allowed citizens of the Soviet Union to have more freedoms than they did in the past.
A
Adolf Hitler
B
Mikhail Gorbachev
C
Emperor Hirohito
D
Harry Truman
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty. This landmark agreement proposed to eliminate all intermediate and short-range ground-based missiles and launchers from Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The speech is commonly known by a key line from the middle part: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!". Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled West Berlin since 1961.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country’s dissolution in 1991.

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