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In order to defend American interests in the cold war, Reagan streamlined the armed forces and pulled missiles out of Europe. He demanded that the Soviets immediately remove missiles and when they didn't he put American range missiles in Europe and at the USSR.
There was no American victory in the Cold War. No one won it. The fact that both Communist nations and Communist ones exist today is proof.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, when George H.W. Bush was president.
The cold war lasted for about 35 years, so the leaders of the countries changed. The leaders when the cold war began were Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) and Harry S. Truman (U.S.A.). When the cold war ended, the leader of Russia was Mikhail Gorbachev, and the leader of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
The Cold War lasted from the end of World War 2 until 1989, when the Berlin wall came down. So every President from May 1945 to 1989 was in office during the Cold War. They were: Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush