Read President Reagan’s words about foreign policy, and then study the graph showing defense spending. The truth is that a [nuclear] freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud, for that is merely the illusion of peace. The reality is that we must find peace through strength.
–Ronald Reagan,
March 8, 1983

A line graph titled U S Defense Spending, shows years on the x axis and billions of dollars on the y axis. 1980, 450. 1982, 500. 1984, 590. 1986, 600. 1988, 600.

The passage and graph show that President Reagan’s foreign policy goals were primarily a continuation of
A. isolationism.
B. containment.
C. neutrality.
D. appeasement.