Question

HELP ASAP!!!!! What was Ronald Reagan’s strategy for helping the United States win the Cold War?

A. invading the USSR
B. embracing détente
C. increasing military spending
D. decreasing military spending

Answer 1

Ronald Reagan's strategy for helping the United States win the Cold War was by increasing military spending. He predicted the Soviet Union's collapse if challenged competitively by America. Therefore, he began to start a large increase in America's military technology and weapons and challenged the Soviets to match up with it. The Soviets ran out of money and their Union collapsed.

Answer 2

Answer: C. Increasing military spending

More details about Reagan's defense spending:

When President Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981, he took a hard stance toward the Soviet Union. Where previous leaders of the nations had pursued detente and nuclear arms reduction, Reagan spoke of the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and ramped up American military preparedness with the Stategic Modernization Program. He authorized a program to spend over 200 billion dollars over five years on bombers, cruise missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and more.

Then in 1983, Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was a plan for a space-based missile defense system against any threat of Soviet missiles. Sometimes people referred to Reagan's plan as "Star Wars." More than 200 billion dollars were devoted to the Strategic Defense Initiative over the next four decades after the program was started.