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Good Morning!. NVC HOT ROC: Cornell Notes Review Reagan’s Foreign Policy Essential Question : Does Reagan’s foreign policy make him an effective leader? Homework : Work on Final Project. HOT ROC: Cornell Notes Review. How was the Soviet Union changing under Premier Mikhail Gorbachev?

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  1. Good Morning! • NVC • HOT ROC: Cornell Notes Review • Reagan’s Foreign Policy Essential Question: Does Reagan’s foreign policy make him an effective leader? Homework: Work on Final Project

  2. HOT ROC: Cornell Notes Review • How was the Soviet Union changing under Premier Mikhail Gorbachev? • Glasnost? • Perestroika?

  3. Reagan’s Foreign Policy • The Reagan Doctrine • US openly supports anticommunist movements throughout the world • Nicaragua Civil War • Reagan has CIA aid Contras (counterrevolutionaries) against Sandinistas (Socialist government) • “The moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.”—Reagan • “the Contras systematically engage in violent abuses of human rights so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war.”—Human Rights Watch • 1984 Congress votes to end aid to the Contras

  4. Iran-Contra Affair • Reagan’s first foreign policy victory = freeing hostages from Iran • 1986 report U.S. selling arms to Iran to gain the release of the hostages • Money from weapons sales used to illegally fund Contras against Congress’ wishes • Iran-ContraAffair: Reagan administration lies to Congress to cover up, seen as abuse of executive power

  5. Reagan the Cold Warrior • Reagan intensifies arms race with Soviets • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) • Called “Star Wars” by critics • Elaborate space laser missile defense shield • Costly, ineffective, and threatened to reignite the nuclear arms race • End result = Soviet Union goes bankrupt trying to keep up

  6. Cold War Winds Down • 1989 Gorbachev announces Russia will no longer prop up Communist Satellite States • Beginning of the end of the Cold War • 1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves under President George H.W. Bush

  7. Exit Ticket • Does Reagan’s foreign policy make him an effective leader?

  8. The Century: Ending the Cold War • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Benn-JMig4 Pt. 1, start at 5:35 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwSV6M0mhm0 Pt. 2 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cvHG8vpYb0 Pt. 3

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