The treaty of paris of 1783
I think you're asking whom he lost to, in that case it was Woodrow Wilson
Because they were running low on supplies and other goods were missing so they could survive
When USA stopped selling oil and scrap metal to Japan.
Japan got slowed down in CBI.
The United States sponsored the Contras because they were against the Sandinista government which was in place at the time in Nicaragua. The Sandinista government was a national reconstruction government, but it was a government that the United States viewed as communist. It came at the time where the United States was extremely weary of the Soviet Union and communist rule and a time when Reagan was president and his foreign policy was based very much on stopping opposing ideologies from gaining ground anywhere in the world.