WORLD 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: -The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American “support for democracies against authoritarian threats.” The doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S.

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: -The Boland Amendment prohibited the federal government from providing military support “for the purpose of overthrowing the Government of Nicaragua.” It aimed to prevent CIA funding of rebels opposed to the revolutionary provisional junta.