The Iran-Contra Affair intensified the already existing Cold War tensions between the USA and the Soviet Union.
<em>The Iran-Contra affair</em> was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of Reagan's presidency. Arms were secretly sold to Iran and the profits obtained from the sale went to support the Contras in Nicaragua.
<em>In Nicaragua</em>, young Marxists known as Sandinistas took power and turned to the Soviet Union for support and advisers. Soviet Union and Cuba both backed the new Sadinistas government. Seeing it as a way to spread communism, the Reagan administration<em> backed the Contras</em> ( the opposition to the new government). The Contras rebels received financial and military support from the U.S., the rebels were also trained covertly by the CIA. The money for the Contras came from illegal arms sales to Iran. The funding of the Contras had been prohibited by the Congress.
<em>The official justification for the arms shipment to Iran</em> was to pay for the release of seven American hostages in Lebanon. Iran was the subject of arms embargo and any arms sales were prohibited. It turned out that the sales started even before any hostages were taken. Iran was involved in a war with Iraq and the United States feared that it would fall under the Soviet Union's influence, as the Soviet Union supported Iraq in that war.
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The correct answer is B. Providing weapons to rebels fighting to overthrow a foreign communist government would be more likely under the Reagan Doctrine that under the foreign policy of detente.
Explanation:
The Reagan Doctrine was a Cold War foreign policy doctrine of President Ronald Reagan, by which the United States sought to diminish the international influence of Communists. Although the doctrine was followed for less than a decade, it was at the heart of US foreign policy from the early 1980s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In practice, the doctrine meant US assistance to anti-communist guerrilla and resistance movements in countries supported by the Soviet Union in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Its purpose was to reduce the influence of the Soviet Union and to create the conditions for capitalism and democratic governance. For example, support was given to Contra-guerrillas in Nicaragua and Islamist Mujahden-guerrillas in Afghanistan.
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It was, why was it a problem?
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Gavrilo Princip
Explanation:
Princip was the Serbian who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which sparked World War I. Following World War I, Russia weakened as it cannot take on providing a second front for the Allies as well as fighting a civil war. Russia lost against the communist forces, which led to the Communist rise to power, effectively eliminating Russia from World War I. Enter in the U.S.S.R, which then made dealings with Germany, in which they were able to take satellite countries for themselves in Europe. They then joined the Allied side & helped defeat the Axis, which in turn granted them territories, which helped expand their sphere of influence. As the Market Economy & Command Economy are on the opposite spectrum, and with the arms build up, the world entered into the Cold War.
Without Princip assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, none of this may have happened.
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1. The cartoon shows the pilgrams coming into the "new uninhabited land" and the Indians are talking about all the problems they might cause now that they are on the land.
2. The Mayflower, also called the hawthorn flower, was a popular flower in England. We think the ship had a mayflower carved on its stern. Ships were brightly painted so that people could recognize them from a distance.
3. The irony of what the Indians are saying is exactly what happens when they move there later on.
4. i really think this is a question you should answer yourself...
