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Reagan's foreign policy objectives
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The Reagan Doctrine
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3  cards
Changing diplomacy
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12  cards
Trade restrictions
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3  cards
SDI
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3  cards
Reagan's foreign policy and the end of the Cold War
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8  cards
The USSR and EE
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2  cards
Poland, 1980-81
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6  cards
The role of Pope John Paul 2
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6  cards
Instability in the USSR, 1980-84
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3  cards
Gorbachev and the New Thinking
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5  cards
Nuclear diplomacy
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6  cards
The role of Margaret Thatcher
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3  cards
The end of the CW
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3  cards
Gorbachev's final reforms
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2  cards
The fall of the Berlin Wall
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6  cards
The fall of communism in EE
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1  cards
Gorbachev's role in the collapse of communism
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5  cards
The US role in the collapse of communism
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2  cards
The fall of the USSR
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5  cards
Reagan and the triumphalists
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9  cards
Criticism of the triumphalist interpretation
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6  cards
Margaret Thatcher
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2  cards
Thatcher's support for Reagan's policies
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8  cards
Pope John Paul II
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11  cards
The pro-Gorbachev view
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15  cards
Criticism of the pro-Gorbachev interpretation
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5  cards
The role of key personalities interpretation: an overall assessment
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4  cards
The economic burden of the USSR
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2  cards
The stagnant Soviet economy
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14  cards
Technological backwardness
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11  cards
A costly empire
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7  cards
The arms race
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11  cards
The economic factors' interpretation: an overall assessment
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5  cards
People power in the Soviet Bloc
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10  cards
Why did popular discontent grow in Eastern Europe in the 1980s?
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11  cards
Did people power end the Cold War?
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6  cards
The moral bankruptcy of communism
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3  cards
A privileged and corrupt elite
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7  cards
An alienated population
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5  cards
Abuse of human rights
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8  cards
Empire by rape
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5  cards
The moral bankruptcy interpretation: an overall assessment
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6  cards

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