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Presidency of Ronald Reagan

  • Cold WarOn the 16th of April 1947, an influential advisor to Democratic presidents named Bernard Baruch stood before an audience and declared, "we are today in the…
  • Governors Island SummitRonald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev on Governors Island during the final days of 1988. The date marked December 7, a time when Cold War tensions still hung…
  • Washington Summit (1987)The Washington Summit of 1987 took place on the 8th of December 10 between United States president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • 1980 United States presidential electionThe United States entered the 1980 election cycle with a nation grappling with stagflation, a toxic mix of high inflation and stagnant economic growth.
  • Presidency of Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on the 20th of January 1981.
  • Reagan DoctrinePresident James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to establish a new boundary for American foreign policy. Theodore Roosevelt followed with his own…
  • United States invasion of GrenadaAt dawn on the 25th of October 1983, the United States invaded Grenada, a small Caribbean island nation, in an operation codenamed Urgent Fury.
  • 1986 United States bombing of LibyaThe 1986 United States bombing of Libya began at 02:00 on the 15th of April, when sixty tons of munitions rained down on targets across Tripoli and Benghazi…
  • Cold War (1979–1985)The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, shattering a decade of cooperation between Washington and Moscow.
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyIn March 1976, the Soviet Union deployed its first RSD-10 Pioneer missile system in European territories. Western analysts called this weapon the SS-20 Saber.
  • Tear down this wall!At 2:00 p.m. on the 12th of June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, shielded from East Berlin by two panes of bulletproof…
  • Geneva Summit (1985)The Geneva Summit of 1985 began its planning in May 1985 when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko approached U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz during…
  • Strategic Defense InitiativeOn the 23rd of March 1983, President Ronald Reagan stood before a national television audience and declared that nuclear weapons must be rendered impotent…
  • Moscow Summit (1988)The summit took place from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June in 1988. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Moscow during this period.