had many effects on the Cold War‚ it also leads to the Free World’s victory over communism. The Cold War officially ended on December 25th‚ 1991‚ when an agreement was signed by Mikhail Gorbachev‚ the leader of the Soviet Union‚ and Ronald Reagan‚ president of the United States. Each country took part in the START‚ or the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks‚ and SALT II‚ or the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II‚ talks which approved of the
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events led to this result‚ from multiple revolutions in Europe to General Secretary Gorbachev making concessions domestically and internationally‚ led to this‚ once powerful‚ nation to collapse. In the late 1980’s‚ Gorbachev conceded so many different things such as the allowance of states to become independent. These intentions were shown to be true through multiple occurrences. The first would be in 1989‚ when Gorbachev ordered a full disengagement in Afghanistan.
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USSR disintegrated into fifteen independent states including Russia Federation as the largest‚ Estonia‚ Lithuania‚ Latvia‚ Ukraine‚ Belarus and Uzbekistan‚ just to name a few. In the newly established Russia Federation‚ the former leader Mikhail Gorbachev was replaced by president Boris Yeltsin. The main reasons for the collapse were ongoing economic crisis due to ineffective central planning and incompetent government. According to the Swedish economist Aslund “the collapse of the Soviet Union
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military’s spending to increase our arms to unmatchable numbers. Reagan then had to be the bigger person and use his social skills to try and create a compromise with the Soviet Union. He Finally got the chance to meet with Soviet head of State Mikhail Gorbachev‚ He started to build a relationship
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History Of The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall‚ for twenty-eight years‚ separated friends‚ families‚ and a nation. A lot of suffering began for Germany when World War II commenced‚ but by the end of the war Germany was in the mists of a disaster waiting to happen. After WWII was over Germany was divided into four parts. The United States‚ Great Britain‚ and France controlled the three divisions that were formed in the Western half; and the Eastern half was controlled by the Soviet Republic. The
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In April 1986‚ Mr. Gorbachev began the perestroika‚ translation “reconstruction”‚ which was to end the Cold War that effectively brought down the Iron Curtain. The split between West and East not only partitioned the world into two parts‚ but also divided the European family for over 40 years. With the fall of the Soviet Union came many changes that affected much if not all of Europe. At the end of the Brejnev era ‚ the socialist bloc was severely outdated and far removed from the contemporary
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Past and present McCarthyism affected the lives and political thinking of people in the U.S. during the 1950’s. With the Soviets declaring their intentions of exporting revolution throughout the world‚ McCarthyism effectively used the fear and hatred Americans had of communism in order to manipulate the American public and sway political decisions. After America learned‚ from Britain‚ that Klaus Fuchs‚ had spied for the Russians while working on the Manhattan Project‚ Senator McCarthy
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The causes of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were that it had no popular support‚ political downfall‚ and economic problems. The fact that the USSR had gained all of its money from the Eastern European states (after world war 2)‚ Stalin’s paranoia of the West forced him to put all that money into defensive arms and therefore none of that money was being channeled into the country. Many historians would argue that it was at this point that the USSR began its downward spiral and this is
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I. Reform and Protest in the 1960s A. Cold War Tensions Thaw 1. Buoyed by the rapidly expanding economy of the postwar era‚ the political consensus in western Europe shifted to the left. 2. In Britain‚ the Labour Party returned to power in 1964. 3. In the Scandinavian countries of Denmark‚ Norway‚ and Sweden‚ Social Democratic parties maintained a leading role throughout the period. 4. In West Germany‚ Willy Brandt (1913–1992) became the first Social Democratic West German chancellor
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Gorbachev did everything he could to preserve the Soviet Union. In contrast‚ Boris Yeltsin wished for the dissolution of the Soviet Union as fast as possible. His wishe came true when Gorbachev‚ realizing that he had lost widespread support‚ resigned from his position. To understand why Yeltsin lent his stature as the elected President of Russia to the dissolution of the Soviet Union‚ an individual analysis (level 1) will be conducted. According to Kotz and Weir‚ Yeltsin was in fact‚ a high ranking
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