Answer to Question #121673 in History for Lizwi

Question

Explain The Reagan Doctrine.

Answer 1

Under a policy that came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine, president Reagan and his administration provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements, in an effort to manipulate governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America away from communism and toward capitalism.

Reagan Doctrine was mainly meant to counter the influence of communism and to lure other countries in Africa and Asia to adapt capitalism instead of communism.