Foreign Policy and the Cold War

1
Foreign Policy and the Cold War

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• INF Treaty
• Sandinistas
• Contras

2
Gorby

• March 1985
• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Sec.
• General of Communist Party
• Began glasnost
• Openness
• Open to free press and criticism
• Perestroika
• Called for less government control of the economy
• Allowed for private enterprise
• Led to democracy

3
INF Treaty

• 1987
• Treaty that eliminated two major classes of
  nuclear weapons in Europe
• Allowed for on-site inspections

4
End of the Cold War

• Gorbys introduction of democracy led to the
  breakup of the Soviet Union
• Gorby resigned
• 1992
• Pres. Bush (I) and Boris Yeltsin declared the
  Cold War over

5
Iran Contra

• 1977-79
• Sandinistas
• Rebel group in Nicaragua
• Toppled the Nicaraguan dictator
• Pres. Carter acknowledge the new govt and sent
  
• Soviets also sent
• Pres. Reagan called Nicaragua a satellite of the
  Soviet Union

6
Iran Contra cont.

• Reagan began to support the Contras
• Congress banned aid to the Contras
• Reagan found a way to fund Contras anyway
• Nicaragua held free elections in 1990

7
Yes, more Iran Contra

• 1983
• American hostages were taken in Lebanon
• Reagan encouraged allies not to sell weapons to
  Iran in their war against Iraq
• ButReagan approved a weapons sale to Iran and in
  exchange, Iran would tell its friend, Lebanon, to
  let US hostages go
• Hostages were freed

8
Big Trouble

• Some of the profits from the sale of weapons to
  Iran went to the Contras in Nicaragua