Reagan Doctrine

President Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahideen leaders in the Oval Office in 1983

The Reagan Doctrine was a document by the United States under the Reagan Administration. It was about being against the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War. The doctrine lasted for less than a decade, it was the most important document of United States foreign policy from the early 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991.