Qt. 3 Exam Essays

Essay # 1

    Ending the Cold War was a good thing.  It was a sign that the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was coming to an end.  Also it was a telling who had the better government, communism was taken down by Ronald Reagan.  He was able to do something that the other presidents before him could not do.
    To end the Cold War Ronald Reagan boosted our military, he made sure everyone would know that we were not to be messed with.  The conservative republican president spent money on something that was vital to our Nations success from the beginning, our armed forces.  We as a country had a very strong national defense so this made the Soviet Union back down.
    In the above paragraph I stated that Reagan did this and that to end the war, though this is not all that ended the war.  The Soviet Union had troops in Afghanistan, the cost of having them in this country was not that cheap.  They were being effected by the spoils of war.  The economy factor of the Cold War is where America wins and the Union loses because they could not afford it.