Foreign+Policy

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media type="custom" key="3796761" **About the Foreign Policy:** 1. Ended the 1970s detente 2. Reagan, ordered a massive buildup of the military //-Including an intervention in Grenada, which was the first overseas action by U.S troops since the end of the Vietnam War// 3. The "Reagan Doctrine", granted aid to paramilitary forces, trying to overthrown socialist governments, particularly in Central America and Afghanistan 4. Reagan, promoted new technologies such as, missile defense systems, to confront Soviets and their allies

5. Reagan, forged a strong alliance with the United Kingsom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, meeting with the Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev four times, aiming to shrink the superpowers' nuclear arsenals

President Reagan came up with a creation known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Which was an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. The nickname for this program was immediately called "Star Wars." The SDI was intended to defend the U.S from attack from the Soviet ICBMs, by intercepting the missiled a different phases of their flight. The Soviets feared that the SDI would enable the U.S to launch the first strike against them. media type="custom" key="3796887" An artist's rendering of an X-ray laser hit an incoming missile. Photobucket.com  []
 * STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE**