HL History Internal Assessment Was President Ronald Reagan the reason for the Cold War’s conclusion? Word Count: 1‚634 Was President Ronald Reagan the reason for the Cold War’s conclusion? A. Plan of Investigation This investigation focuses on the impact that President Ronald Reagan had on ending the Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union during the 1980’s. The use of historian argumentation‚ primary sources‚ such as Ronald Reagan’s Address to the Nation on Defense
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divided Germany‚ was no more. Some say that the wall fell down gradually then all at once‚ and some Americans say that the wall fell down thanks to President Ronald Reagan’s speech by the Brandenburg Gate‚ West Berlin in 1987 where Reagan demands “Mr Gorbachev‚ tear down this wall”. This speech from Reagan was not the first time he addressed the Soviet questioning the building of the wall but in this particular speech/personal intervention Reagan whilst standing by the locked Brandenburg Gate talks in
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leader of China were distant despite having the same ideology. The same can be said with Stalin’s successor‚ Nikita Khrushchev‚ and the successor of Khrushchev‚ Leonid Brezhnev. Sino-Soviet relations didn’t know better days until the 1980s when Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping became leaders of their respective countries. In order to
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Response Paper #11: Mikhail M. Bakhtin Three important points on the biography of the critic include: 1). According to Wikipedia: Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher‚ literary critic‚ semiotician‚ and scholar who worked on literary theory‚ ethics‚ and the philosopher of language (n.p). 2). According to Biography.com: In 1929 he was exiled from Vitsyebsk to Kazakhstan. Known for Problems of Dostoevsky ’s Poetics‚ his ideas influenced Western thinking in cultural history‚ linguistics‚ literary
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DURING the spring of 1987‚ American conservatives were becoming disenchanted with Ronald Reagan’s increasingly conciliatory approach to Mikhail Gorbachev. Inside the White House‚ Mr. Reagan’s aides began to bicker over a speech the president was planning to give on a trip overseas. That June‚ the president would travel to Venice for the annual summit meeting of the seven largest industrialized nations. From there‚ plans called for him to stop briefly in Berlin‚ which was still divided between East
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technologies and electronic links among institutions and individuals. The Soviet Union still relied on the rigid planning and pervasive controls‚ leaving no room for initiative and inventiveness. When Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the party in 1985‚ the huge country began to move. Gorbachev surrounded himself with a number of reform-minded economists and soon
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Cold War in 1945. President Ronald Reagan increasing the military budget; Mikhail Gorbachev expanded the Soviet Union military spending as well. “Not being able to overcome the economic and political demands of the United states ‚caused the Soviets to suffer dramatically” (Student Resources Gale‚ “End”). Only months later the Soviet Union was stagnate and crashed‚ resulting in a Soviet lost. Postwar actions of Gorbachev was to change from a communist country to a democracy‚ trying to figure out
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)‚ which was established in 1922‚ was the first communist state in the world. Run by the general secretary‚ the equivalent of the position of the president in the United States‚ the communist party controlled the government‚ and the government controlled all of the industry and agriculture. Yet‚ under such strict government control‚ the Soviet Union ended in collapse in the year 1991. The main contributing factor towards the downfall of the USSR was the
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In support of the deal UN General Assembly approved the complete nuclear test ban treaty. Later‚ Gorbachev ended the war in Afghanistan. On the other hand‚ Reagan puts policymakers who agreed with the new Détente Strategy. In the West and Eastern Europe there was protest and demand for liberation. In November 1989‚ came the fall of the Berlin wall. The
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advice and was still able to maintain the nation that he ruled. One of these leaders is Mikhail Gorbachev. The main ideas expressed in the novel are that a stable nation is a great nation and a prince’s main concern must be stability‚ that it is better to be feared by people than it is to be loved‚ and that a prince must do what he must in order to preserve his power and the power of his nation. Mikhail Gorbachev was elected President of the Soviet Union in 1989‚ and while he believed in keeping the
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