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What international policies of Gorbachev's ended thee cold war? |
1) renewing detente with the west, summits were held, Reagan and Gorbachev got on well and agreed to commit to change 2) 1986: declaration the USSR had no further intentions to spread communist ideology 3) agreements to reduce nuclear arms and withdraw troops from Afghanistan. |
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What home policies helped Gorbachev end the cold war? |
1) Perestroika: an attempt to save crumbling soviet economy by modernization, western style polices were introduced, allowing people to create businesses 2) Glasnost: freedom of speech for press and people, political prisoners were freed and Brezhnev doctrine ended so troops withdrew from Eastern Europe |
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What are thee steps to ending the cold war? |
1) Poland declares independence in 1989 2) Hungary follows suit in September 3) Berlin wall falls and Germany is reunified 4) communist governments in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria fall 5) Warsaw pact ends in 1991 6) Bush and Gorbachev declare end of the cold war |
