Whilst the Reagan Doctrine pushed Soviet communism into retreat from the Third World, it did not result in those countries having a friendly attitude toward the US. The instabilities that plagued Third World nations before and during the Cold War continue unabated.
  • Repercussions of Third World involvement
  • Requirements of Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Failure of Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Reagan's Third World Policy/Mentality
In Anglo, a rival rebel group vied with the ruling party for the leadership of Angola, but when several peace agreements failed the rebels, who were supported by the white apartheid supremacist regime in South Africa and also by Reagan, tried to take the country by force. While the leader of the movement was condemned as a tool of South Africa, Reagan welcomed him to the White House as "America's best friend in Africa." He provided the warlord with $30 million annually in weapons and other needs to sustain the insurgency.When the war finally ended, the ruling party stayed in power and Angola was crippled by 27 yrs of war.
  • Weinberger quote
  • Afghanistan
  • Angola
  • Nicaragua
Reagan believed that people under a communist rule were essentially slaves that had to be freed. He wanted to free them from the mental and moral attack he believed that they were under
  • Reagan's Third World Policy/Mentality
  • Goal of Reagan Doctrine
  • Reagan Quote
  • Afghanistan
The Reagan doctrine said that the root cause of unrest in the Third World was the Soviet Union's communist influence rather than local factors such as poverty, overpopulation, or political corruption.
  • Reagan's Third World Policy/Mentality
  • Repercussions of Third World involvement
  • Goal of Reagan Doctrine
  • Reagan Quote
Was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. With the tension of the Cold War looming overhead, the Strategic Defense Initiative was the United States' response to the possibility of long range nuclear attack.
  • Intent of Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Failure of Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Repercussions of Third World involvement
  • Goal of Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was implemented as an alternative to containment and isolation which Reagan regarded as a failure. The Reagan Administration's focus was to reverse the spreading of communism in the Third World, regardless of whether the communist regimes were controlled by the Soviet Union.
  • Intent of Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Reagan's Third World Policy/Mentality
  • Failure of Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Goal of Reagan Doctrine
In Nicaragua, U.S. hostility toward the new leftist government turned the new party toward the Soviets. When Reagan took office, the Sandinistas were high on the right-wing hit list. With covert support for a collection of mercenaries, drug runners, and anti-communist zealots—collectively called the contras—an immense amount of pressure was exerted on the Managua government. The Central American presidents consistently voiced their opposition to Reagan's lavish support for the contras, to no avail.By 1990, exhausted by the isolation and contra violence, and having mismanaged the economy, the Sandinistas lost an election to a moderate coalition. The Contra war left Nicaragua bitterly divided and heavily armed. An estimated 25,000 to 100,000 weapons remain in civilian hands.
  • Involvement in Third World
  • Afghanistan
  • Reagan Quote
  • Nicaragua
In 1983, the US invaded Grenada to "liberate" it from a so called "brutal gang of leftist thugs". This upset many heads of state, including Margaret Thatcher, who condemned the military action as an invasion of a sovereign state. In Afghanistan, a Soviet-backed regime had come to power in 1978 after a coup, and, to support this government, Soviet forces invaded and occupied the country. In Nicaragua, a widely popular revolution by the Sandinistas, overthrew a decades-old oligarchy in 1979, and moved gradually toward their own brand of communism. And Angola, an oil-rich Portuguese colony, won its independence and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which had waged a war of independence for 20 years with support from Cuba, came to power.All these regimes were condemned as tools of the USSR, and any group that rose up against them was supported by Reagan despite their complete disregard for human rights.
  • Afghanistan
  • Involvement in Third World
  • Requirements of Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Nicaragua
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