THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980
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Libya
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Lebanon
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Iraq
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Iran
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Detailed explanation-1: -The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on 25 October 1983.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1981 onward, the Reagan administration feared that conflict between Lebanese factions backed by Syria and Israel, along with clashes between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), could escalate into an Arab-Israeli war.
Detailed explanation-3: -1983 Beirut barracks bombings, terrorist bombing attacks against U.S. and French armed forces in Beirut on October 23, 1983 that claimed 299 lives.
Detailed explanation-4: -On October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber destroyed the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 240 Marines.
Detailed explanation-5: -Eisenhower responded by authorizing Operation Blue Bat on 15 July 1958, in the first application of the Eisenhower Doctrine in which the US announced that it would intervene to protect regimes that it considered to be threatened by international communism.