Ronald Reagan And The Fall Of An Empire - 3332 Words

Ronald Reagan and the Fall of an Empire With the dust settling after the end of the Second World War two supers started to emerge. In the Western side of the globe with the power of industry, manufacturing and a free market, capitalist society the United States was growing at the fastest rate in modern times. As a polar opposite to the United States and their form or government almost as if suited for a fiction novel The Soviet Union with the power of a Communist Iron Fist Government was too emerging. Both wielding the power and never seen before destructive power of the atomic bomb squared off in a worldwide chess match using the globe and neighboring countries as their board game and pawns. Both countries tried to spread their form of†¦show more content†¦It was the only thing he really thought about in depth.’ (Mann 51) For Reagan this was the reason he was put into office and he wanted to make sure that during his presidency he would fight each day to end form of government that immoral and evil. Regan upon his inauguration started to make a change in policy that have been left over from previous administration of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The first among them was â€Å"Dà ©tente.† This is defined as easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. Reagan did not believe this tactic worked in the past or was even possible of working the future. â€Å"Well, so far dà ©tente’s been a one-way street that the Soviet Union has used to pursue its own aims. I don’t have to think of an answer to what I think their intentions are; they have repeated it. I know of no leader of the Soviet Union since the revolution, and including the present leadership, that has not more than once repeated in the various Communist congress they hold their determination that their goal must be the promotion of the world revolution and a one-world Socialist or Communist state, whichever work you want to use. (Reagan, 1981) This believe and stance that the S oviet Union will not negotiate has led him to follow one path. A path that leads to the defeat of the Soviet Union. Reagan started to implement many policies and strategies to achieve his goals in the