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Document Links:

Document 28.1 RONALD REAGAN, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)

Document 28.2 GERALDINE FERRARO, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address (1984)

Document 28.3 TONY AUTH, Cartoon, Philadelphia Inquirer (ca. 1988)

Document 28.4 RONALD REAGAN, Address at Moscow State University (1988)

Document 28.5 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, Speech before the Central Committee (January 27, 1987)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 28

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: What were Ronald Reagan’s assumptions about and policy approaches to the Soviet Union during his two terms as president, and what role did he and his policies play in bringing about the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 28.16

1. Which of the sources provides specific evidence about Ronald Reagan’s assumptions about and approaches to the Soviet Union during his first term as president of the United States? Choose ALL that apply.

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R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 28.2: Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.3: Tony Auth, Cartoon, Philadelphia Inquirer
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.4: Ronald Reagan, Address at Moscow State University
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.5: Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech before the Central Committee
Correct: Document 28.1: Reagan’s 1983 speech lays out some of his basic assumptions about the Soviet Union during his first term in office. Document 28.2: Geraldine Ferraro refers to Reagan’s approaches to the USSR in her speech promoting the Democratic ticket for the presidential election at the end of Reagan’s first term.
Incorrect: Document 28.3: Tony Auth’s cartoon was published dring Reagan’s second term. Document 28.4: Reagan gave this speech in Moscow during his second term as president. Document 28.5: Gorbachev gave this speech to the Central Committee during Reagan’s second term in office.

Question 28.17

2. Which of these documents provides specific evidence about Ronald Reagan’s assumptions about and posture toward the Soviets and the Soviet Union in his second term as president? Choose ALL that apply.

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kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.2: Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 28.3: Tony Auth, Cartoon, Philadelphia Inquirer
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 28.4: Ronald Reagan, Address at Moscow State University
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.5: Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech before the Central Committee
Correct: Document 28.3: Tony Auth’s cartoon comments on Reagan’s SDI program, which Reagan proposed to combat the nuclear threat posed by the USSR. Document 28.4: In this speech before students at Moscow State University in 1988, at the end of his second term as president, Reagan demonstrates his assumptions about and posture toward the Soviets and the Soviet Union.
Incorrect: Document 28.1: This speech comes from Reagan’s first term as president. Document 28.2: Ferraro promotes the Democratic Party’s slate for president and vice president in 1984. Document 28.5: Gorbachev justifies his plan for a reorganization of the Soviet Union in 1987.

Question 28.18

3. Which of the following documents provides specific evidence about Mikhail Gorbachev’s role in bringing an end to the Cold War at the end of the 1980s? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.1: Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.2: Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 28.3: Tony Auth, Cartoon, Philadelphia Inquirer
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 28.4: Ronald Reagan, Address at Moscow State University
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 28.5: Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech before the Central Committee
Correct: Document 28.4: Reagan alludes in this speech to his growing relationship with Gorbachev. Document 28.5: Gorbachev explains and justifies his plans to reorganize the Soviet Union’s economy and society to the Soviet Central Committee in this speech, illustrating the reforms initiated that contributed to the end of the Cold War.
Incorrect: Document 28.1: Reagan’s remarks do not address Gorbachev or his role in bringing about the end of the Cold War. Document 28.2: Ferraro’s speech does not shed light on Gorbachev’s role in bringing about the end of the Cold War. Document 28.3: Tony Auth’s cartoon does not shed light on Gorbachev’s role in bringing about the end of the Cold War.

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