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Presidency of Ronald Reagan

  • Cold WarFifty years, no direct shot, and one misread signal from the end. Listen to the war of spies, walls, and the men who chose not to fire.
  • Governors Island SummitThe Governors Island Summit met on the 7th of December, 1988, and it would not go the full distance. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were at its center.
  • Washington Summit (1987)The Washington Summit of 1987 brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev together for three days in December at the White House.
  • 1980 United States presidential electionOn the evening of the 4th of November 1980, NBC News called the presidential race at 8:15 pm Eastern time, before polls had even closed on the West Coast.
  • 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 Cold War entered one of its most dangerous phases between 1979 and 1985, a period when the threat of nuclear war reached heights not seen since the Cuban…
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyThe Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ended, formally, on the 4th of August 2025, when Russia announced it would no longer abide by its terms.
  • 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 brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev face to face for the first time on the 19th of November, 1985, in a lakeside villa…
  • Moscow Summit (1988)The Moscow Summit brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev together in the Soviet capital from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June, 1988.