How was President Ronald Reagan an influential leader for ending the Cold War?
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He happened to be president at the right time, so he gets to take credit for everything.
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Ronald Reagan.  Cut taxes, and made everyone proud to be Americans
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The Civil War, the Cold War, and some nifty little operations like when Grenada was taken.  American students were there and would likely have been killed.  The public didn't even hear about it until the U.S. military had taken control of the island and rescued  the students.  Reagan took care of that with executive authority.\n\nThe Demonrats of old were not pacifists.  The party is not the same as it was then.  So your statement about the past is not relevant to the parties of today.\n\nClinton never solved anything after terrorist acts or dealt with the Middle East problems the whole 8 yrs he was in the Oval Office.  Oh... wait... .he was too busy.\n\nAt least Bush is trying to deal with the situation in Iraq.... and given enough time has a chance to resolve it.  That is.... if peace can ever be brought to the Middle East.  If not.... no Demonrat could do any better.  They are quick to criticize, but offer no plans of their own.  Their "plan" but be to just pretend it isn't there and it will go away.\n\nSue
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Here is what made even Democrats like Reagan:\n\nImagine you are a regular working class guy in 1980.  Your whole existence is starting to look outdated and shabby.  There is shag carpeting in the living room and avocado green appliances in the kitchen.  Your car is rusting in the driveway.  Your salary can't even keep pace with inflation, and the American dream is starting to look like the American nightmare.\n\nInstead of talking about the superiority of noble American ideals such as freedom and democracy, social critics start talking about "moral equivalency", as if democracy is no better than Communism.  To make matters worse, the Soviets are on the march all across the world.  It's starting to look like the Communists will eventually gain global domination.  People are wondering how much longer the American way of life can continue.\n\nJimmy Carter is talking about malaise, and how our best days are behind us.\n\nThen, Ronald Reagan gallops onto the scene, like John Wayne arriving just in time to save the fort against the indian attack.  Reagan tells us our best days are ahead of us.  He reminds us of the incredible accomplishments our nation has achieved throughout the years.  He restores our pride, and he gives us confidence.\n\nPeople start to feel better about the future.  They feel that, with Reagan in charge, things really will get better. For the first time in a long time, they are proud to be American.\n\nI remember seeing a political cartoon in the Chicago Tribune in which Reagan is flying out the window like Peter Pan.  Inside the room, are nervous investors, but Reagan tells them not to be afraid... they can fly!\n\nThat was Reagan's genius.  People sensed his strength of leadership and his resolve.  If he told you things were getting better, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.\n\nReagan gave incentives for businesses to invest in future technologies, upgrade their existing infrastructure, and engage in more research and development, all of which led to the tech boom of the 1990s, during Clinton's presidency.
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On Oct. 11, 2001 Ronald Reagan became the longest-lived president by surviving to his 33,120th day.
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Ronald Reagan was president from 1980 - 1988.
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I think Nixon failed because he did not adhere to these principles.  A 'Prince' must be thought publically to be beyond reproach.  He may carry out underhanded dealing to acheive a purpose.   Machiavelli specified that the only acceptable end was the stabilization and health of the state; individual power for its own sake is not an acceptable end and does not justify evil actions.  In this way both Nixon and Reagan sought power for personal ambition, not the benefit of the country.
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President Ronald Reagan would prove to be an interesting project topic. His stand and views against the Soviet Union and Socialist movements around the world helped to define his presidency. \n\nIn addition, he helped to end the Cold War and made a stand against striking air-traffic controllers (by firing them). \n\nYou can read a lot more about him using the links below. As a side note, I also think Rosa Parks would be a great topic, but she might also be a popular one among your classmates.
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Presidency 1977-1981\n\nPolicies\n \nPresident Carter - October 1980The Carter Administration's foreign policy is most remembered for the Iran hostage crisis, for the peace treaty he brokered between the states of Israel and Egypt with the Camp David Accords, for the SALT II treaty brokered with the Soviet Union, for the Panama Canal Treaties which turned the canal over to Panama, for creating full diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China following Richard Nixon's lead, for placing human rights as the center of his foreign policy, and for an energy crisis. He was much less successful on the domestic front, having alienated both his own party and his opponents, through what was perceived as a lack of willingness to work with Congress — much as he had in his term as Governor. Even so, he was successful in deregulating several industries, consolidating governmental agencies, creating a national energy policy and the Departments of Energy and Education, bolstering the social security system, appointing record numbers of women and minorities to government and judicial posts and enacting strong legislation for environmental protection, doubling the size of the National Park Service.\n\nWhen the energy market exploded, an occurrence Carter tried to avoid during his term, he was planning on delivering his fifth major speech on energy. However, he realized the American people were no longer listening. Instead, he went to Camp David and for ten days, met with governors, mayors, religious leaders, scientists, economists, and general citizens. He sat on the floor and took notes of their comments and especially wanted to hear criticism. His pollster told him that the American people simply faced a crisis of confidence because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and Watergate. His Vice President Walter Mondale strongly objected and said that there were real answers to real problems; it did not have to be philosophical. On July 15, 1979, Carter gave a nationally-televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence" among the American people. This has come to be known as his "malaise" speech, even though he never actually used the word "malaise" anywhere in the text:\n\nI want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.... I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might. \nThe threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.[6] \nCarter's speech, written by Chris Matthews, was well-received[7], although some viewed it as too much like a sermon. But, the country was in the midst of an economy frustratingly dominated by OPEC-caused double digit inflation. But many who had hoped for some sort of simple solution found themselves disappointed. Two days after the speech, Carter asked for the resignations of all of his Cabinet officers, and ultimately accepted five. Carter later admitted in his memoirs that he should have simply asked only those five members for their resignation. By asking the entire cabinet, it looked as if the White House was falling apart. With no visible efforts towards a way out of the malaise, Carter's poll numbers dropped even further.\n\nOn 1 October 1979, President Carter announced before a television audience the existence of the Rapid Deployment Forces (RDF), a mobile fighting force capable of responding to worldwide trouble spots, without drawing on forces committed to NATO. The RDF was the forerunner of CENTCOM.\n\nAmongst Presidents who served at least one full term, Carter is the only one who never made an appoin
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No connections to Ronald Reagan. The first decision made by George W. Bush when he took office was the Mexico City Act. This meant that organisations outside the USA that perform abortions, work for safe and legal abortions or educate and refer women wanting abortion to appropriate clinics, will not receive any economic aid from America.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). Before entering politics, Reagan was also a sports broadcaster, a lifeguard, a newspaper columnist, a motion picture actor, head of the Screen Actors Guild, a television actor, and a motivational speaker. His speaking style, which was widely regarded as well-delivered and persuasive, earned Reagan the nickname "The Great Communicator" from the media.\n\nBorn February 6, 1911\nTampico, Illinois.\n\nPresident from January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989.\n\n Political party Republican.\n\nSpouse (1) Jane Wyman (divorced)\n(2) Nancy Davis Reagan.\n\n Died June 5, 2004\nBel-Air, California.\n\n 1937, when in California to cover spring training for the Chicago Cubs as a Headline radio announcer, Reagan took a screen test that led to a seven-year contract with the Warner Brothers studio.  \n\nReagan was commissioned as a reserve officer in the United States Army in 1935. In November 1941 Reagan was called up but disqualified for combat duty due to his astigmatism. \n\n Reagan's film roles became fewer in the late 1950s, he moved into television as a host and frequent performer for General Electric Theater.\n\n Reagan served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1947 until 1952, and again from 1959 to 1960.\n\nHis final regular acting job was as host and performer on Death Valley Days. Reagan's final big-screen appearance came in the 1964 film The Killers.\n\nRonald Reagan was originally a Democrat,by the early 1960s he had become a staunch social and fiscal conservative.\n\nIn 1966, he was elected the 33rd Governor of California.\n\nOn March 30, 1981, Reagan, his press secretary James Brady, and two others were shot by John Hinckley, Jr.. Missing Reagan’s heart by less than one inch, the bullet instead struck his left lung, which likely spared his life.\n\nOn January 11, 1989, Reagan addressed the nation one last time on television from the Oval Office of the White House, nine days before handing over the presidency to George H. W. Bush. After Bush's inauguration, Reagan returned to his estate, Rancho del Cielo, near Santa Barbara, California, to write his autobiography, ride his horses, and chop wood. He eventually moved to a new home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles.\n\nOn November 5, 1994, Reagan announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He informed the nation of his condition via a hand-written letter.\n\nThe Gallup Organization recently took a poll on the most popular presidents in U.S. history. Ronald Reagan was chosen by 87% of Americans polled.\n\nReagan died of pneumonia on June 5, 2004 at his home in Bel-Air, California.\n\nIn a 1995 poll of 2,307 coin collectors by the Littleton Coin Company, Reagan was ranked as the most popular person to appear on a future U.S. coin.\n\n On February 6, 1998, Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport by a bill signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Three years later, on USS Ronald Reagan was christened by the Navy. \n\nOn May 14,2005 CNN, along with the editors of TIME, named him the "most fascinating person" of the network's first 25 years on a broadcast anchored by Bill Hemmer.\n\nOn June 26,2005 participating voters selected Reagan as the "Greatest American" during a live television special sponsored by AOL and broadcast live on the Discovery Channel.
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His ideas were the same as every other communist leader of the USSR...world domination.  Total enslavement of everyone.\n\nHe has NO impact on the world today.  You can thank Ronald Reagan.  Period.
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It makes a nice story, but it is a myth. \n\nA close look will clearly show the fall of the Soviet Union resulted almost entirely from internal political struggles. The correlation with Reagan’s "anti-Communist" rhetorical stance was merely coincidental, not causal. If you review the available US intelligence documents you will see that the fall of the Soviet Union was completely unexpected--certainly not in any way the result of a planned campaign or strategy.\n\nUnfortunately these self-serving myths are usually more popular than reality, even though the correct information is easily available to anyone who bothers to look. Unfortunatly their understanding of economics appears to fall into the same pattern.
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Ronald Reagan. He made me feel proud to be an American!
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Reagan was the best President in my lifetime. In the foreseeable future, I don't expect any politician to be acceptable to both sides.
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Boy, there's a debate.\n\nShort Answer: The United States, and it did it by spend the Soviet Union into oblivion. The USSR suffered the fate of most empires -- it overextended itself and ran of the resources necessary to sustain its empire.\nBut the US did it at a terrible cost. We are now stuck with a military-industrial complex that is bleeding us drive and could very soon threaten our own superiority.\n\nSo philosophical answer: The Cold War isn't over yet, and we could still lose.
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Cold War: Postwar Estrangement\n1.The Western democracies and the Soviet Union discussed the progress of World War II and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran (1943), Yalta (February 1945), and Potsdam (July-August 1945). After the war, disputes between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies, particularly over the Soviet takeover of East European states, led Winston Churchill to warn in 1946 that an "iron curtain" was descending through the middle of Europe. For his part, Joseph Stalin deepened the estrangement between the United States and the Soviet Union when he asserted in 1946 that World War II was an unavoidable and inevitable consequence of "capitalist imperialism" and implied that such a war might reoccur. \n\nThe Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. There were real wars, sometimes called "proxy wars" because they were fought by Soviet allies rather than the USSR itself -- along with competition for influence in the Third World, and a major superpower arms race. \n\nAfter Stalin's death, East-West relations went through phases of alternating relaxation and confrontation, including a cooperative phase during the 1960s and another, termed dtente, during the 1970s. A final phase during the late 1980s and early 1990s was hailed by President Mikhail Gorbachev, and especially by the president of the new post-Communist Russian republic, Boris Yeltsin, as well as by President George Bush, as beginning a partnership between the two states that could address many global problems. \n\n\n\nCold War: Soviet Perspectives\n2.After World War II, Joseph Stalin saw the world as divided into two camps: imperialist and capitalist regimes on the one hand, and the Communist and progressive world on the other. In 1947, President Harry Truman also spoke of two diametrically opposed systems: one free, and the other bent on subjugating other nations. \n\nAfter Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stated in 1956 that imperialism and capitalism could coexist without war because the Communist system had become stronger. The Geneva Summit of 1955 among Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, and the Camp David Summit of 1959 between Eisenhower and Khrushchev raised hopes of a more cooperative spirit between East and West. In 1963 the United States and the Soviet Union signed some confidence-building agreements, and in 1967 President Lyndon Johnson met with Soviet Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey. Interspersed with such moves toward cooperation, however, were hostile acts that threatened broader conflict, such as the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 and the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia of 1968. \n\nThe long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982) is now referred to in Russia as the "period of stagnation." But the Soviet stance toward the United States became less overtly hostile in the early 1970s. Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union resulted in summit meetings and the signing of strategic arms limitation agreements. Brezhnev proclaimed in 1973 that peaceful coexistence was the normal, permanent, and irreversible state of relations between imperialist and Communist countries, although he warned that conflict might continue in the Third World. In the late 1970s, growing internal repression and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led to a renewal of Cold War hostility. \n\nSoviet views of the United States changed once again after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in early 1985. Arms control negotiations were renewed, and President Reagan undertook a new series of summit meetings with Gorbachev that led to arms reductions and facilitated a growing sympathy even among Communist leaders for more cooperation and the rejection of a class-based, conflic