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.
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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
increased spending on a military buildup
Right after the cold war. Economic interests spoke louder.
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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.
Winning it
Most historians would say that the cold war ended thanks to the cooperation of then-Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev with American President Ronald Reagan. Other people were also involved, but these two men were the main reason the animosity and mistrust between the Soviet Union and the United States ended.
Easy example from the joke archives of the Cold war: Reagan and Gorbachev ran a race. Reagan came first, Gorbachev came second. American media reported that Reagan beat Gorbachev, showing true American competitive spirit. Soviet media reported: President Gorbachev secured a wonderful silver medal. Reagan came next-to-last. Both true. The sad on the funny, you see it too often.
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the cold war set the reagan revelusion up to the date who the japenese droped the atomic bomb
Reagan wanted to eliminate communism, not merely contain it.