Mikhail Baryshnikov

overspending and excess, America would find itself as the decade for American entertainment. movies, music, introduction to video games all being run by an actor out of Hollywood know as President Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union or the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev would take the head of the office in the Soviet Union. Reagan and Gorbachev had different yet similar milestones to which they would attain the highest offices of their country. Reagan would serve as Governor of California,…

Although Ronald Reagan is the face of the “End of the Soviet Union” I honestly believe it wouldn’t have been done if it wasn’t for Reagan’s officials in the executive branch. Reagans administration officials played a huge role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Reagan administration fought for a wide array of attempts that increased confrontations with the U.S.S.R. and its allies. Reagan along with the help of his officials, increased in U.S. defense spending designed to update existing…

The Soviet Union's continued push for rapid industrialization to meet the standards of the West not only caused an economic issue it had essentially was the change from Communism to the Western way of democracy. After the leadership of Stalin and Khrushchev, the Soviet Union became more conservative such as by moving common average people to higher jobs. By the mid-1980s, continued competition with the United States contributed to the falling of the Soviet’s economy. Forced industrialization…

A Day with a President The president of the United States is a powerful and important position to fulfill. Past presidents of the United States have many interesting facts that occurred while in office. A president that America viewed as one of the greatest presidents was Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, is a president that one would choose to spend a day. Ronald Reagan would be the best president from the past to spend a day with for the following reasons:…

It was pretty clear from the beginning that President Reagan was willing to utilize all of his power to makes sure the goals of the INF treaty were to be accomplished. Some examples of this was when President Reagan in 1981 proposed a zero option policy. This was especially critical and a large use of his Presidential power because this was the beginning to the creation of the INF treaty. This proposal laid the framework of negotiations on reductions in all types of arms. Reagan proposed the…

“We Win, They Lose”: How Reagan’s Foreign Policy Brought Down the Soviet Union The 1980s was a pivotal era in world history. After decades of America’s failed containment policies which strengthened and helped spread Communism across the globe, a change in direction was desperately needed. Ronald Reagan fundamentally shifted American foreign policy as president, which in turn, greatly influenced the collapse of the “evil empire” by the early nineties. Although the Reagan Administration did…

The fall of the Berlin Wall was a hallmark event that marked the end of the Cold War. Many Americans give credit to only U.S. President Ronald Regan for ending the Cold War, however, both Regan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev played key roles in ending the Cold War. Gorbachev was the fourth leader of the Soviet Union during Regan’s Presidency, before he assumed power in 1985 relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union were extremely tense. Just three years into Gorbachev’s rule the U.S. was…

“The broad framework of US foreign policy in the era of the Cold War, as well as other eras, the U.S. must adhere to the bottom line. This means, protecting a constructive investment environment for private business benefits” (Hartman, 2002). In 1981, former Pakistani Dictator and General Mohammed Zia al-Haq, understood US Policy bottom line. In a meeting with William Casey, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the dictator offered Casey with a map of the Near East…

After Soviet leaders extended their navy and support for rebel movements; the United States restated an anti-Soviet posture in 1981, when Ronald Regan threatened the Soviet regime with intensive military spending. After 1985 a new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, tried to save communism by introducing reforms. Gorbachev’s attempts to salvage communism failed and in 1989 after communism was replaced with solidarity the Berlin Wall fell, and in 1991 the Soviet Union disbanded. During the 1980…

Lost but not loser: The assessment of the claim that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War Introduction With the disintegration of Soviet Union, the Cold War era, which lasted as long as 40 years, had come to an end. The last Soviet Premier Gorbachev, ironically, been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after his failed reformation and governance in Soviet Union, which, to put it the other way round, could been seen as affirmation for his struggle to pave the way for nuclear agreement and open the…