jan 20, 1981 - Inauguration of Ronald Reagan
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"Mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall!"Ronald Reagan's foreign policy is generally characterised by 'peace through strength'. This included funding anti-communist forces across Latin America and supporting coups of dozens of democracies. However, Reagan's second term was characterised by improving US-USSR relations in large part to Mikhail Gorbachev.
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jan 20, 1981
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~ 45 years ago