Worked on Cold War project today!
And did some forum posts!
17. How did the cold war come to an end/the fall of communism
http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2005/10/8/13119/5007
http://ibmick.posterous.com/why-did-the-cold-war-end-0
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2009/11...
http://www.johndclare.net/Basics_ColdWar.htm
till the mid 80's
-and especially the explicit policy that rebellions in Eastern Europe would not be put down by force, led to the end of the Cold War. In particular, this policy led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, after which the Cold War was essentially finished.
1) The view of the "triumphalists,"
-Reagan doctrine: the clear anti-communist leadership of Ronald Reagan and his advisors. Hence, SDI (or "Star Wars"). the resistance in Afghanistan, etc. made the Cold War too costly, both economically and politically, for the Soviet Union, so they surrendered.
2) The view of the "liberals"
The peoples of Eastern Europe demanded an end to Soviet domination and put an end to the Cold War.
3) The view of the "Great Man" theorists
Reagan and especially Gorbachev, who put an end to the Cold War. These two men completely reinvented Soviet-US relations in a way that made the Cold War not only unnecessary, but obsolete. They did so even as their advisors tried to convince them otherwise.
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