The following sentences form a paragraph. The sentences are numbered as P, Q, R, S and T. These sentences are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and choose the alternative that arranges them in correct order.
P. Prominent examples of implementation of the Reagan Doctrine included Nicaragua, where the United States covertly assisted the Contra rebels fighting to oust the Cuban-backed Sandinista government.
Q. By assisting armed resistance movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Reagan sought to “roll back” the influence of communism on the governments in those regions.
R. The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy implemented by U.S. President Ronald Reagan intended to eradicate communism and end the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
S. Functionally, it combined the tense brand of Cold War atomic diplomacy with the addition of overt and covert assistance to anti-communist guerrilla “freedom fighters.”
T. In Afghanistan, too, the U.S. provided material support to the Mujahideen rebels fighting to end the Soviet occupation of their country.
The first sentence in a paragraph always introduces a new topic and must be a sentence with independent meaning.
So, determining the first sentence and eliminating options becomes the quickest way to find the answer.
Here, only sentence R introduces 'The Reagan Doctrine' while the others give more information about it; so, R must be the first$ sentence.$
Out of the given options, both 1 and 2 begin with R.
So, we look at the next sentence in the order.
Only sentence S can be the second sentence, as it uses the pronoun 'it', referring to 'The Reagan Doctrine' mentioned in the first sentence.
So, S must be the second sentence.
The order RS is only given by option 2.
Therefore, the correct answer is option 2.