What did Reagan's "peace through strength" Cold War approach mean?

He wanted to cut ties with the USSR.

He wanted to increase the national defense.

He wanted to spend less money on the US military.

He wanted to send diplomats to communist countries.

The correct option is: "He wanted to increase the national defense. "

Reagan's foreign policy was marked by his attempt to contain Soviet influence in many regions. Carter had considered Soviet influence an inevitable process, but Reagan moved to a policy of greater confrontation against the Soviet Union. During the Reagan era the Cold War went through its final phase, and somehow the United States emerged from that period as the only unchallenged world superpower, against the Soviet bloc that eventually dissolved. The Reagan administration turned the arms race into a technological struggle, where the largest industrial, military and economic capacity of the United States was imposed on the Soviet bloc.

Ronald Reagan's mantra was "peace through strength." Peace was the end, strength the means. He focused on the Soviet Union and its advanced outposts, especially in the Western Hemisphere. Restraining the hegemonic threat posed by an aggressive, ideological Soviet Union led to Reagan's tough policy.