Debate: Ronald Reagan’s Policies Directly led to the Fall of the Soviet Union

Post date: Apr 13, 2015 6:31:08 PM

Sources that Support Reagan as being influential in the end of the Cold War:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2004/06/ron_and_mikhails_excellent_adventure.html

http://reagan.civiced.org/lessons/middle-school/presidential-leadership-cold-war

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19040-2004Jun5.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/reagans-cold-war-legacy/

Sources that say Reagan's role is exaggerated in ending the Cold War:

http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2007/0103/book/book_sempa03.html

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/01/22/why-neither-reagan-nor-the-united-states-won-the-cold-war-2

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/opinion/10mann.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/foreign/reagrus.htm

A Little Bit of Both:

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/age-reagan/essays/ronald-reagan-and-end-cold-war-debate-continues

http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2004/08/01russia-talbott

Primary Sources (YOU MUST USE ONE OF THESE):

http://reagan2020.us/speeches/brandenburg_gate.asp

http://astro.temple.edu/~rimmerma/gorbachev_speech_to_UN.htm

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/major.html#.VSwKcdzF9ME

http://www.publicpurpose.com/lib-gorb911225.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/26/world/end-of-the-soviet-union-text-of-gorbachev-s-farewell-address.html