Reagan intensified the Cold War with the Soviet Union, breaking with his predecessors' détente policy. His SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) defense spending and his cordial relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's general secretary, helped prepare the way for the end of the Cold War.
<h3>What was the cold war?</h3>
After World War II, a persistent political conflict between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their allies came to be known as the Cold War. George Orwell gave this animosity between the two superpowers its first term in a piece that was printed in 1945.
The Intermediate Nuclear Forces Reduction Treaty, which forbade the use of intermediate-range nuclear missiles, was signed in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
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