End of The Cold War
Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. From 1981 and took a second term up until 1989. Reagan was known for ending the Cold War. He was from California and was a cowboy movie star, many people never thought a movie star would become President.
Reagan had made a famous speech referring to the Berlin Wall where he said "tear down this wall". The follow few days the Berlin wall was torn down and the USSR allowed this. Many people looked at the West Berlin as being free and the East as being Communist. The wall separated many families when it went up and now after many years families are back together. From this the USSR gave up control of their territories they had from World War II leading to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. |
Fall of the USSRWhen the Berlin wall fell the USSR economy was already in chaos. The leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev had two words that described it; Glasnost and Perestroika. Glasnost opened up Western ideas and goods into the USSR. Perestroika gave USSR citizens a share in the economy such as stokes. During this time of when the Berlin wall fell, the USSR collapses from 1989-1991. From this the domino theory was seen because many countries got rid of being communist. The other reason why the USSR collapse was that the Russian people were tried of being communist and it didn't help the economy. The USSR turned into the Russian Federation. Even to this day the Russian Federation is still corrupted and not stable in it's government.
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