regain morality. He condemned policies that had allowed the Untied States to support monarchs and dictators in the name of anti-communism. Carter made the CIA follow the law. They were no longer able to “bully” the third world countries. He passed a bill that required the secretary of state to report annually on the status of human rights in all countries receiving aid from the United States and to cut off assistance to any country with a record of “gross violations.” When issues dealing with American interests (i.e. South Korea) he put aside all human rights. In 1984 Ronald Reagan (took office in 1981) reined the covert war by passing the Boland Amendment, forbidding government agencies from supporting “directly or indirectly military or paramilitary operations” in Nicaragua.The president denounced the growing movement for a nuclear freeze. He stated, “We must first find peace through strength.” He wanted to restore American leadership in world affairs. At the end of the 1980’s the cold war ended and communism fell. President George Bush spoke with optimism, in hopes that this peace would last for centuries to come....
