The Berlin Wall foretold the coming collapse of the Soviet Union, which is why the fall of the Berlin Wall is the most important event in world history. There was no clear reason why the Soviet Union collapsed even though there was no foreign invasion, military defeat, or internal revolution in the nation. The ultimate reason may have been Gorbachev and his reforms to the Union that caused the collapse of the USSR. During the Cold War, the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, created domestic reforms of glasnost and perestroika. Glastnost allowed western ideas and goods to enter the Soviet Union and perestroika was an initiative that allowed limited market incentives to Soviet citizens (Ushistroy.org). According to Harrison, “…during the Gorbachev
