Why did the Cold War end?
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- How and why did The Cold War end in 1989?
- Afghanistan
- USSR faced huge pressure over invasion
- Was only meant to be a small invasion - turned into their equivalent of the Vietnam War
- Huge financial burden - verge of bankrupcy
- USSR faced huge pressure over invasion
- Gorbachev & Regan
- G realised drastic changes were needed
- Supporting other communist countries, competing in the Arms Race and huge military costs were too much to bear.
- The USA spent huge amounts of weaponry to finally 'win' the Arms Race. G new Russia could not keep up.
- Friendship
- Reagan came to power with a huge anti-communist stance. E.g. massive defence spending
- Yet the two superpowers got on well together - showing a closer relation
- Meetings
- G and R met in Geneva (1985) and Reykjavic (1986)
- INF signed 1987 - actual nuclear weaponry destroyed
- Change
- 1989 aw the break up of the Soviet's Sphere of Influence over Eastern Bloc
- Poland 1989 - protests led to free elections
- Gorbachev refused to send in Red Army to squash opposition
- Signal to other Eastern European countries
- End to the Cold War
- Borders began to open and Communist governments resigned
- In 1989 G and President Bush met off Malta and declared the Cold War over
- In 1989 the Berlin Wall was torn down
- Soviet Union collapsed, G resigned 25th December 1991
- Afghanistan
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