How did the u. s. role in the nicaraguan civil war change in 1982?
a. the u. s. government stopped official funding for the contras.
b. the u. s. government acknowledged the legitimacy of the nicaraguan government.
c. the u. s. government supported iran’s intervention to stop communist insurgents.
d. the u. s. government began mass shipments of weapons to nicaragua.

The correct answer is A

In 1982, the U.S Congress passed the first Boland Amendment. This was the first of three U.S. legislative amendment made between 1982 and 1984.

The aim of this Amendment was to stop the U.S. government's assistance to the  Contras, the armed opposition to Nicaragua's communist government during the Nicaraguan Civil War.

It prohibited the training, supplying, or funding of the Contra rebels. The amendment applied to any agency or entity of the United States "involved in intelligence activities."

The correct option is "A. the U.S. government stopped official funding for the Contras."

It is known as the Sandinista Popular Revolution or simply Sandinista Revolution, to the process opened in Nicaragua between July of 1979 and February of 1990, carried out by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (named in memory of Augusto César Sandino) that put an end to the dictatorship of the Somoza family, overthrowing the third of the Somozas, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, replacing it with a democratic government with a progressive left profile.

The armed opposition was organized by the United States, which formed the call against, plunged the country into a civil war and produced pressure on all possible fields. This, together with various errors of government attributable to the inexperience of the Sandinistas, led Nicaragua to an unaffordable social and critical economic position, which caused the FSLN to lose the elections of February 1990 against the National Opposition Union (a coalition). that grouped the majority of the forces opposed to the FSLN) chaired by Violeta Chamorro and supported by the United States, thus ending the revolutionary period.

a system of cooperative federalism emerged, as the powers of the federal government expanded.