Today we had a work day. My topic is... Why did the US win the Cold War?
this is all the information and sources that i found
The Soviets became bankrupt because they were trying to keep up with the US which caused them to lose the cold war and allow us to win it.
- They were spending 25% of their GNP on the military.
- Gross National Income
- But the size of their armed forces was not necessarily the result of a simple action-reaction arms race with the U.S.
- Lost more money because of the downward slide in oil prices
- By the early 80s the soviet armed forces were the largest in the world
- Types of weapons
- Number of troops in their ranks
- Sheer size of their military base.
- With all the things that the soviets had it made the U.S observers overestimate the Soviets power way too much.
- The new Soviet leader eventually proved to be more concerned with the economy.
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
- General Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- President of the Soviet Union
- He wanted to democratize his country’s political system
- And decentralize its economy
- This led to the downfall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
As a result of the Sino-Soviet split, tensions along the Chinese-Soviet border reached their peak in 1969, and US President Richard Nixon decided to use the conflict to shift the balance of power towards the West in the Cold War. [171] The Chinese had sought improved relations with the US in order to gain advantage over the Soviets as well.
In February 1972, Nixon announced a stunning rapprochement with Mao's China [172] by traveling to Beijing and meeting with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. At this time, the USSR achieved rough nuclear parity with the US while the Vietnam War weakened US influence in the Third World and cooled relations with Western Europe. [173] Although indirect conflict between Cold War powers continued through the late 1960s and early 1970s, tensions were beginning to ease. [119]
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