2. Mutual Assured Destruction 3. Mutual Assured Destruction 4.
Tear down this WallUnder the assumption thatthe Soviet Union
couldnot outspend the U.S.government in a renewedarms race, Reagan
usedwords and money toescalate the Cold War. 5. The Strategic
Defense Initiative(SDI), commonly called StarWars after the popular
sciencefiction movies, was a systemproposed by President
RonaldReagan on March 23, 1983. 6. Strategic Defense InitiativeSDI
would use ground-based and space-basedsystems to protect the United
States from attackby strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. 7. The
Death of DtenteThe initiative focused on strategic defense rather
than the previousstrategic offense doctrine of mutual assured
destruction. 8. Teaching the Public 9. The Death of Dtente Though
it was never fullyimplemented, theresearch andtechnologies of
SDIpaved the way for theAnti-ballistic missilesystems of today. The
technology requiredto implement SDI is stillbeing researched in
theU.S., and it is currentlyin testing with stations inAlaska and
islands in thePacific Ocean. 10. Reagan and
GorbachevGlasnostPerestroika 11. Arms ReductionThe Soviets did
notattempt to follow suitwith their own program,but instead
followed aprogram of armsreduction treaties. 12.
0501001502002503003504001975 1978 1980 1983 1986 1989in
billionsMilitary spending increased under Reagan 13.
0500,0001,000,0001,500,0002,000,0002,500,0003,000,0001970 1975 1980
1985 1988The national debt tripled under Reagan 14. Ronald
ReaganCold Warrior
