Analyze The Causes Of Political Change In The 1980's

There was a lot of political change during the 1980’s and 1990’s that happened. The Soviet Union broke up, the collapse, and what went on with president Bush and Reagan. The end of the cold war and the dissolution of the Soviet Union made a major shift in the United States foreign policy. The end of the Cold War was connected with the fall of the Soviet empire in East Europe. When Khrushchev resigned and with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it affected the Cold War and the USSR had backed down.
The USSR had also faced foreign attacks on the Soviet economy. Ronald Regan had isolated the Soviet Union’s economy from everyone and drove the oil prices low. With the decisions that Ronald Reagan made he caused the USSR to start losing its hold on Eastern Europe. The political revolution in Poland sparked peaceful revolutions around Eastern Europe which led to the Berlin wall. It had allowed the East Germans and other Eastern Europeans to move freely into western sectors. When the Berlin wall collapsed everyone celebrated the fact that they could move freely between the East Berlina and West Berlin.
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People saw the Reagan policy as aggressive and imperialistic although the policies were supported by leading American conservatives to protect U.S. security interests. During his political run against George W. Bush, it was when the political change had started. George W. Bush didn’t follow the policy of Ronald Reagan in dealing with the Soviet Union and Mikhail Gorbachev. George Bush agreed with Gorbachev’s reform efforts, hoping the Soviet leader would shift the USSR toward a market-oriented economy. With Gorbachev’s decision to create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a process of democratization and it caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. With Gorbachev’s reforms, they did more to hasten the fall of the Soviet Union than they did to save