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It describes aid and military training in El Salvador, support for the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua, and the Iran-contra controversy alongside congressional debates. 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The United States provided El Salvador with a program of economic aid and military training when a guerrilla insurgency threatened to topple its government. It also actively encouraged the transition to an elected democratic government, but efforts to curb active right‑wing death squads were only partly [successful. U.S. support](successful. U.S. support) helped stabilize the government, but the level of violence there remained undiminished. A peace agreement was finally reached in early 1992.  \nU.S. policy toward Nicaragua was more controversial. In 1979 revolutionaries calling themselves Sandinistas overthrew the repressive right-wing Somoza regime and established a pro-Cuba, pro-Soviet dictatorship. Regional peace efforts ended in failure, and the focus of administration efforts shifted to support for the anti-Sandinista resistance, known as the contras.  \nFollowing intense political debate over this policy, Congress ended all military aid to the contras in October 1984, then, under administration pressure, reversed itself in the fall of 1986, and approved $100 million in military aid. However, a lack of success on the battlefield, charges of human rights abuses, and the revelation that funds from secret arms sales to Iran (see below) had been diverted to the contras undercut congressional support to continue this aid.  \nSubsequently, the administration of President George H.W. Bush, who succeeded Reagan as president in 1989, abandoned any effort to secure military aid for the contras. The Bush administration also exerted pressure for free elections and supported an opposition political coalition, which won an astonishing upset election in February 1990, ousting the Sandinistas from power.  \nThe Reagan administration was more fortunate in witnessing a return to democracy throughout the rest of Latin America, from Guatemala to Argentina. The emergence of democratically elected governments was not limited to Latin America; in Asia, the \"people power\"  \ncampaign of Corazón Aquino overthrew the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, and elections in South Korea ended decades of military rule.  \nBy contrast, South Africa remained intransigent in the face of U.S. efforts to encourage an end to racial apartheid through the controversial policy of \"constructive engagement,\" quiet diplomacy coupled with public endorsement of reform. In 1986, frustrated at the lack of progress, the U.S. Congress overrode Reagan's veto and imposed a set of economic sanctions on South Africa. In February 1990, South African President F.W. de Klerk announced Nelson Mandela’s release and began the slow dismantling of apartheid.  \nDespite its outspoken anti-Communist rhetoric, the Reagan administration's direct use of military force was restrained. On October 25, 1983, U.S. forces landed on the Caribbean island of Grenada after an urgent appeal for help by neighboring countries. The action followed the assassination of Grenada's leftist prime minister by members of his own Marxist-oriented party. After a brief period of fighting, U.S. troops captured hundreds of Cuban military and construction personnel and seized caches of Soviet-supplied arms. In December 1983, the last American combat troops left Grenada, which held democratic elections a year later.  \nThe Middle East, however, presented a far more difficult situation. A military presence in Lebanon, where the United States was attempting to bolster a weak, but moderate pro-Western government, ended tragically, when 241 U.S. Marines were killed in a terrorist bombing in October 1983. In April 1986, U.S. Navy and Air Force planes struck targets in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, in retaliation for Libyan-instigated terrorist attacks on U.S. military personnel in Europe.  \nIn the Persian Gulf, the earlier breakdown in U.S.-Iranian relations and the Iran-I","cbCaikDZ2jfX6a87","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikDZ2jfX6a87","pdf",228635,"English","# Reading passage\n## El Salvador and Nicaragua\n## Latin America and South Africa\n## Grenada, Lebanon, and Libya\n## Persian Gulf and Iran-contra\n## Questions","[{\"question\":\"How did Ronald Reagan approach American foreign policy?\",\"answer\":\"Reagan sought a more assertive U.S. role, using aid, pressure, and military force in various regions to influence political outcomes.\"},{\"question\":\"What happened in Nicaragua and why was U.S. policy controversial?\",\"answer\":\"After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime, the U.S. shifted to support the anti-Sandinista resistance, the contras, which led to major political debate and disputes over military aid.\"},{\"question\":\"What was the significance of the Iran-contra hearings?\",\"answer\":\"The hearings examined possible illegality and broader constitutional questions about government secrecy and the balance of presidential versus congressional authority in foreign relations.\"}]","Foreign Affairs - Reading Comprehension Questions | PDF",1792383307]