Mikhail Gorbachev

can be directly correlated to the fall of the Soviet Union with Mikhail Gorbachev at its helm. Coming to power as general secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party in 1985, Gorbachev enacted a process of reformation, reforming the communist states and institutions through Glasnost and Perestroika. Once begun these reformations took on a snowball effect gaining increased momentum and size exceeding the initial intentions of Gorbachev and by Christmas Day 1991 all 15 Soviet republics gained…

vain. As no matter how many battles they won, they continued to lose the war. In 1985, this routine had finally worn on the patience of Soviet politics and people. The illusion of the grand communist power beginning to disintegrate before them. Mikhail Gorbachev took over as general secretary the same year, his unique foreign policy and anti-war sentiment rapidly shifting opinion in the Union. The next year the war effort was only further degraded as Stinger missiles began to be supplied to the…

It challenged Gorbachev and the Soviet Union to end the feud. His words were bold and unexpected. It brought harmony between East and West Germany. The wall separated the Soviets and the Western Alliance from the control of Germany. The Berlin Wall separated all of Europe…

gained back their independence, formed democracies, and switched to market-based economies. During the 1980s,the economic and political structures of the Soviet Union were falling apart and it wa00s becoming increasingly obvious. In 1985, with Mikhail Gorbachev in power, the Soviet Union was entangled in catastrophic economic problems. Also, the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe began successively abandoning…

While trying to revive the Soviet Union, Gorbachev wanted to relieve the tension with the United States (Orr 37). Gorbachev met with Reagan to discuss a treaty called the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Arrangement, which reduced the number of nuclear warheads for both countries (Rubel 199). Several pundits thought Reagan would embarrass the United States when he met with the Soviet Union, but Mikhail Gorbachev liked and respected Reagan (Sidey 142). Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range…

entice the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.…

On Christmas Day, 1991, the USSR, the first socialist state, ended after 74 years, marked by the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev. By December 31, the USSR was formally disassembled into 13 independent republics: Armenia , Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Estonia and Latvia previously gained their independence in August 1991. Some historians argued that this radical change and end to…

Reagan had said to many that it was “ the saddest day of my presidency and probably the most saddest day of my entire life.” (“Cannon, 2008”) It was not only a sad day for him, but a sad day for all. Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan both came to an agreement later on and signed a treaty called, Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty in December 1987, at the Washington Summit. This treaty will “ eliminate an entire class of intermediate-range nuclear missiles…

presidents who brought the wall to its downfall were Ronald Reagan, a former actor and then president, in the USA and Mikhail Gorbachev, a reformer, in the USSR, even though Reagan was not the president of America anymore when the actual downfall happened. Although the actual downfall was a result of the east German population and in the end the decision of the GDR’s government, Gorbachev played a far more important role to bring the issue to the point were a decision for a wall would even be…

“Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!” President Ronald Reagan spoke these historic words that cut through the air at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. After WWII, the Soviet Union divided Germany into East and West. Communism and the Soviet Union claimed the East, while the West allied itself with the United States, England, and France. In August of 1961 the Soviet Union started construction on a barrier to halt a mass emigration from East to West Germany. The barrier would become known as…