Why was Reagan's foreign policy called "the Second Cold War?"Reagan's foreign policy efforts are called the "second cold war" because...

Ronald Reagan, upon taking office during his first term
denounced the policy of detente, or an easing of tensions between
the two Cold War powers.  Just like the majority of the Cold War Reagan's second Cold
War was largely fought with rhetoric.

Reagan wanted to
"win" the Cold War, doing what his predecessors could not.  He used terms such as "Evil
Empire" to describe the Soviet Union.

A renewed attempt to
stop Soviet expansion, the so-called "Domino theory," led to attempts to stop or
undermine governments in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and other third world countries around
the world in the 1980s.

By the mid to late 1980s Reagan's
stance had softened a bit.  He even met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 to
discuss arms reductions.

In the end Reagan's strategy
worked and the Soviet Union collapsed after Reagan's second term ended.  The Berlin
Wall, the symbol of East-West tensions for much of the Cold War was torn down in 1990,
although some historians believe it had more to with internal political struggles in the
Soviet Union than Reagan's policies.