Reagan Doctrine

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The Reagan Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy strategy in the 1980s that aimed to roll back Soviet influence by providing support to anti-communist resistance movements around the world.

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Generate an image of the Reagan Doctrine (The Reagan Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy strategy in the 1980s that aimed to roll back Soviet influence by providing support to anti-communist resistance movements around the world.)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States foreign policy ⓘ
foreign policy doctrine ⓘ
aims rollback of Soviet influence ⓘ
support of anti-communist movements ⓘ
undermining Soviet-backed governments ⓘ
appliesTo Afghanistan ⓘ
Angola ⓘ
Cambodia ⓘ
Chad ⓘ
El Salvador ⓘ
Ethiopia ⓘ
Grenada ⓘ
Guatemala ⓘ
Mozambique ⓘ
Nicaragua ⓘ
Poland ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction United States ⓘ
appliesToPoliticalIdeology anti-communism ⓘ
neoconservatism ⓘ
linked to: New Right
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
describedAs policy of supporting freedom fighters against Soviet-backed regimes ⓘ
describedBySource National Security Decision Directives of the Reagan administration ⓘ
endTime 1989 ⓘ
facetOf Reagan administration foreign policy ⓘ
linked to: Reagan Doctrine

Second Cold War ⓘ
followedBy Bush foreign policy toward post-Cold War world ⓘ
follows Carter Doctrine ⓘ
Nixon Doctrine ⓘ
containment policy ⓘ
hasCause U.S. desire to move from containment to rollback ⓘ
perception of Soviet expansionism ⓘ
hasEffect Iran–Contra affair ⓘ
controversy over human rights abuses by U.S.-backed groups ⓘ
escalation of proxy conflicts ⓘ
increased U.S. covert operations ⓘ
pressure on Soviet Union’s global commitments ⓘ
support for Afghan mujahideen ⓘ
support for Khmer resistance factions in Cambodia ⓘ
support for Nicaraguan Contras ⓘ
support for UNITA in Angola ⓘ
hasPart covert assistance to resistance movements ⓘ
overt military and economic aid ⓘ
support for anti-communist insurgencies ⓘ
inception 1980s ⓘ
mainSubject Cold War ⓘ
Soviet–United States relations ⓘ
namedAfter Ronald Reagan ⓘ
opposedBy Soviet Union ⓘ
U.S. Congress members critical of covert wars ⓘ
human rights organizations ⓘ
partOf U.S. Cold War strategy ⓘ
significantPerson Caspar Weinberger ⓘ
Elliott Abrams ⓘ
George P. Shultz ⓘ
Jeane Kirkpatrick ⓘ
Ronald Reagan ⓘ
William J. Casey ⓘ
startTime 1981 ⓘ
statedIn Ronald Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address ⓘ
Ronald Reagan’s March 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals ⓘ

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Urgent Fury → partOf → Reagan Doctrine-era interventions ⓘ
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Reagan Doctrine → facetOf → Reagan administration foreign policy ⓘ
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Carter Doctrine → influenced → Reagan Corollary to the Carter Doctrine ⓘ
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Carter Doctrine → relatedTo → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ
National Security Decision Directives of the Reagan administration → hasPart → NSDD-75 U.S. Relations with the USSR ⓘ
linked to: Reagan Doctrine
Dictatorships and Double Standards → influenced → Reagan administration foreign policy ⓘ
linked to: Reagan Doctrine
Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy → describes → Reagan administration foreign policy ⓘ
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George P. Shultz → notableWork → Reagan administration foreign policy ⓘ
subject linked to: Shultz
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Way Out There in the Blue → examines → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ
United States (during early Iran–Iraq War period) → usedPolicyFramework → Reagan Doctrine (early formulation in regional context) ⓘ
linked to: Reagan Doctrine