Communist Revolutionaries: When USSR Came Knocking On Reagan's Borders | World | Timeline

The Cold War: When nuclear weapons kept the entire world on the edge of . – Mutually Assured Destruction. As Russia, China and the USA flex their military muscles on the global stage today, ‘. World’ takes a close look at the last time we were threatened by the might of world superpowers: The Cold War. In this episode: - The Caribbean island paradise of Grenada has a Marxist government and it’s just three and a half hours flight from Miami. When a violent coup installs an extremist leader, the USA moves swiftly. Overnight, they send in troops to invade the island and take over the government. - The corrupt and brutal military dictatorship of Nicaragua is crushed by a national rebellion but the rebels are Marxist. The USA funds the counter-revolutionaries in a scandal that goes right to the top of the US Government. - Ronald Reagan announces a new arms program that is so far from reality it is quickly dubbed ‘Star Wars’. The program aims to use a range of futuristic techn