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Reagan administration controversies
Iran–Contra affairIn November 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. President Jimmy Carter imposed an arms embargo on Iran…
United States invasion of GrenadaOn the 13th of March 1979, Maurice Bishop and his New Jewel Movement seized power in a nearly bloodless coup while Prime Minister Eric Gairy was temporarily…
ContrasIn July 1979, the FSLN took control of the capital Managua after weeks of heavy fighting. The president at the time, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, fled the…
Efraín Ríos MonttEfraín Ríos Montt was born on the 16th of June 1926 into a large ladino family of the rural middle class in Huehuetenango, a small city in the highlands of…
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…