why US won the cold war:
soviet union invaded afghanistan
reagan and gorbachev meetings
glasnost and perestrioka
influencers like pope john paul II and maragret thatcher
soviet union invades afghanistan- invaded to end muslim traditions and take over land; communist gov't didn't believe in religon; muslims joined together; muslims controlled country; US put a ban on export of grain to russia; russia was in their own vietnam; gorbachev took russia out of afghanistan
reagan and gorbachev- at first didn't trust each other; disarmament plan: 50% reduction in nuclear arsenals; gorbachev different goals: glasnost and perestroika; chernobyl disaster: realized nuclear weapons were not the answer; reagan proposed to get rid of all nuclear weapons and build an SDI system; gorbachev realized reagan wasn't going to attack; trusted eachother in ending the build of nuclear weapons
glasnost and perestroika- ppl buying low-quality items and suffered from shortage of freedoml; perestroika: private businesses, ending price controlled by gov't, citizens have some say in gov't; glasnost: "openness"; goal: include more ppl in political process and alled criticism of gov't officials
pope john paul II and margaret thatcher- trip to poland; revolution of spirit- motivated for freedom; prime minister of great britain; supporter of reagan; vocal about wrongs of communism
fall of commusim and the end of the cold war:
cold war was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crisis's occurred, the cuban missile crisis, vietnam, and the berlin wall are a few of them
overthrowing communism
the countries involved in the fall of communism- poland, hungary, east germany, bulgaria, czechoslovakia and romania
cold war because no one actually fought because everyone was scared to be attacked by nuclear weapons
russia and the US began to reduce their numbers of nuclear weapons that they both had
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