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How did former president Ronald Reagan impact the u.s
How did former president Ronald Reagan impact the u.s
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1. This was a time when the Soviet Union believed communism was the way to achieve a better life. Although it only did the opposite, and America knew that freedom was the answer. In Reagan’s speech we can see that Americas technology is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. Americans have freedom to create, which helps our country discover new useful tools. While communist countries have no freedom, which means no creating – which means no improving. He says at the end “Come to Berlin…tear down this wall.” Meaning that it is doing no good but stopping
One of the biggest fears of the American people is that the concept of communism contrasts drastically from the concept of capitalism, which the United States was essentially founded upon. The United States, as the public believed, was not a land of perfect communal equality, but rather a land of equal opportunity. However, what made communism so dangerous can be succinctly described by Eisenhower who compared the spread of communism as the domino effect. As his secretary of state, Dulles, put it, the propagation of communism “would constitute a threat to the sovereignty and independence” of America (Doc B). In addition, the Cold War also planted the seeds of rational fear of a global nuclear war. As Russia caught up to the United States in terms of technological advancements, they successfully developed the atomic bomb as well as the hydrogen bomb, which caused Americans to believe that the USSR would use these weapons of mass destruction to forcefully extend their ideologies to the USA. In fact, Americans were so frantic about a potential nuclear disaster that it...
Reagan rose into power after years of turmoil and the American pride was dipping. About a decade before he became president, the war in Viet-Nam was winding down and the troops were returning home to negative demonstrations towards their duty. Then, during the Carter years, America transitioned into a détente policy, which meant that the United States would try to ease the tensions with the Soviet Union by not expanding the military, but not doing anything to acting ease the tension. The idea behind this became known as MAD, mutually assured destruction, (Hannaford) which meant that both the United States and Soviet Union would maintain and even number of nuclear weapons so that if one would fire, the other would be able to fire back equally. Reagan completely disagreed with this philosophy and created a whole new policy when he became president. The foreign policy he established was to create the Reagan Doctrine. According to a speech by Peter Hannaford, the Reagan Doctrine was that America would support democratic movements in any Communist country until that country could enjoy the fruits of freedom (Hannaford). This meant that the United States would help any country who wanted to leave the influence of the Soviet Union and create their own democracy. Also, to counter the Soviet Union and end the Cold War, a race between the United State and Soviet Union to create the best technology and become the world powerhouse, Reagan increased military spending. Ronald Reagan knew that the Soviet Union was unable to keep up the United States in military spending and still having enough funds to fund their own economy to keep it stable. Reagan used this knowledge to convince Congress to increase military budget to build up technology, causing the Soviets decide on what to do. The United States had the funds to continue, but the Soviet Union could not keep up. The breaking point
...speech to the world where he was quoted as saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The speech was given at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin (“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall: President Ronald Reagan”). This speech signified the beginning of the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. President Reagan’s foreign policy tactics are another reason why he was a great president.
He asks a question in his speech, “Can we solve the problems confronting us?” and then shortly after he answers, “Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic, yes.” expressing the power of America by using great word choice. By using the words unequivocal and emphatic we see that Reagan is confident in America and his people. After stating the above, later on in his speech he says, “I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.” showing us Americans must work hard. Ronald Reagan clearly does not think making America great will just happen, he believes that people must work hard to achieve greatness. Reagan also says, “With the idealism and fair play… we can have a strong and prosperous America…” allowing us to see that greatness is there we just have to work for it.
Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” (Reagan 361) This line, while so simple, is probably the most famous from the whole speech and arguably one of Ronald Reagan 's most famous and recognizable lines ever. It sends a glaringly strong message that the United States and entire free world wants to bring Germany together not just for its own personal interests but because it genuinely cares about the state of the country. This short concise statement also shows that the president means business and that he is willing to do anything in his power to help the German people should Gorbachev accept his offer. He goes on to state that the United States is striving for peace and although it can not permit the spreading of communism, it does seek for all the people to see an increase in the standard of living and assure both sides security by demilitarizing and disarming both sides wherever
The central idea of Reagan's Speech for the Challenger incident was that all the people in the space program like the Challengers are brave, dedicated, good, admirable people, serving and helping us advance to the future. The Challengers that died, had great courage to go on the spaceship knowing all the possible dangers,as Reagan put it, “ And perhaps we’ve forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle… But we feel the loss, and we’re thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring, brave and they had that special grace, the special spirit that says, ‘ Give me a challenge, and I’ll meet it with joy… They wished to serve and they did. They served all of us” ( Reagan 1). This uses all the positive/good connotations and
In 1947 Hoover’s Speech (a few years before United States won the World War II) reinstated to fight against the spread communism.The author purpose is to cleanse evilness of communism from American society. He justifies his reason by sentencing “identified” American communists. (Doc 4) Due to the Soviet Union belief of spread communism around the world, Americans took action within their own government by detaining American communists and spread the anti-communist ideals and to prevent it from spreading in other countries like Vietnam and Korea. This action would lead to a shift towards American cultural values; Americans were required to adapt anti-communism ideas of supporting the Cold War or considered and accused of being communist.
On January 28th, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded upon takeoff murdering seven astronauts in it. The NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, only 75 seconds after liftoff, conveying an overwhelming end to the spacecraft's tenth mission. The disaster killed each of the seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire who would have been the main non military personnel in space (Howell). It was later confirmed that two elastic O-rings, which had been designed to isolate the sections of the rocket booster, had flopped because of cold temperatures on the morning of the launch. The catastrophe and its aftermath got broad media coverage and prompted NASA to temporarily suspend all shuttle
Reagan’s ethos was created throughout his two terms but solidified in his second and final one. Reagan presents his ethos throughout his rhetoric by stating facts with authority and also in a way that made him credible to the audience. One of the parts in his speech is headlined with a cold and awakening fact directed at the Soviet Union. In a 1956 speech given by Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev, the statement “We will bury you,” was aimed at Western ambassadors who stood for freedom. In Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate, he specifically calls out the previously stated notion that the Soviets would essentially, “bury the free world.” Reagan profoundly proclaims this: “In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind--too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.” The great appeal this presented to the
Reagan was for government intervention in foreign policy which was not so good for America’s allowance; on the contrary, this intervention, his hardcore stance against the Soviet Union, and its economic collapse helped end the cold war (Schultz, 2014). Reagan revamped up the military programs that had been cut in the past and he increased the number of America weapons to a point the Soviet Union could not combat this effort. He reached an agreeance with the leader of the Soviet Union to eliminate thousands of nuclear missiles. In turn, they pulled troops from Afghanistan helping boost Russia to stop spreading communism. This was a win at the time for all involved but had a deadly future for the U.S. no one could see coming.
“If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.” The Cold War was a dispute between two of the most powerful nations, the Soviet Union and the United States, during the 1950’s and the 1960’s. The Cold War originated from both the United States and the Soviet Union establishing and protecting it’s own spheres of interest around the globe. To add, the United States during the time of the Cold War noticed that the Soviets were spreading their communist beliefs across the world, so they had to find a way stop the spread of this feared ideology. During
This essay will focus on the Reagan Administration which spanned from January 1981 to January 1989. When Reagan became President, he had only one well-defined foreign policy goal: containing the Soviet Union, or the “evil empire” as he once referred to it. He primarily wanted to stop the USSR from growing larger and to keep other non-Communist countries from becoming Communist. In the past, American presidents had used a theory called the “Domino Theory” to justify the need for intervention around the world. The theory speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. Prior to the Reagan Administration, the United States had already made several attempts to fight the spread of C...
His most extreme rhetoric can be seen in his speech to Evangelical Christians 1983 where he highlighted the Soviet’s secularism calling it “totalitarian darkness”. Reagan’s definition of human rights differed from Carter’s as it centered more on political, religious and economic freedoms, which according to him the Soviet “empire” withheld from the peoples of Eastern Europe. To Reagan, the Berlin Wall in particular was a physical symbol of Soviet oppression on human rights. During his administration America enthusiastically funded the Islamist Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Reagan depicted the Mujahedeen as fighters for human rights who wished to preserve their religious and political freedom from communism. By the mid-1980s as Reagan established a working relationship with Gorbachev he toned down his animosity for the USSR demonstrating that he too used a language of human rights to benefit his own political
Since the inception of The United States of America, Americans, often have turned to the President, in times of concern to receive reassurance, faith and hopefulness. Because we have just commemorated the thirtieth anniversary, of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, as well as my recent admission that President Reagan is one of my hero’s. Combining them both for this assignment, it only seemed fitting to discuss President Reagan’s speech to our nation, given on January 28, 1986 (Reagan, Reagan Speech to America- Space Shuttle Disaster, 1986).
On a cold winter’s morning on the 28th day of January in the year 1986, America was profoundly shaken and sent to its knees as the space shuttle Challenger gruesomely exploded just seconds after launching. The seven members of its crew, including one civilian teacher, were all lost. This was a game changer, we had never lost a single astronaut in flight. The United States by this time had unfortunately grown accustomed to successful space missions, and this reality check was all too sudden, too brutal for a complacent and oblivious nation (“Space”). The outbreak of sympathy that poured from its citizens had not been seen since President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The disturbing scenes were shown repeatedly on news networks which undeniably made it troublesome to keep it from haunting the nation’s cognizance (“Space”). The current president had more than situation to address, he had the problematic undertaking of gracefully picking America back up by its boot straps.