Mikhail Gorbachev

On October 30, 1991, in the Salon de las Columas at the Royal Palace in the Spanish capital, the Madrid Peace Conference was held. Hosted by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, attendees included Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, King Hussein of Jordan, and the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat. Bush stood before the delegates of the Middle East, in an unprecedented meeting that many…

The Cold War Although the Soviet Union and the US fought together against Nazi Germany, their alliance began to fade. The Cold War started in 1947 and ended in 1991. The US and British alliance were trying to stop the Soviet Union from spreading communism across Europe. Although it was called the Cold War, it was not an actual fight. The two alliances competed to have the best weapons. US and Britain allied with countries from western Europe by supporting their economy. The alliance was called…

President and the Chancellor. Although a large group sat listening, the East Germans weren't allowed to come close to the wall, for fear they would hear anything against the Soviet propaganda. In this scene Reagan said his six famous words; “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” With this quote, Reagan rocked the…

space-based weapons to protect America from attacks by Soviet nuclear missiles. Reagan was involved with many foreign affair by trying to create peace and sending men as peace offering for defense. Reagan forged a diplomatic relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev who became leader of the Soviet Union at the time. Both powers signed a historic agreement to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles. In November 1984, Ronald Reagan was elected. The nation’s economy had started to recover and enter…

Within the next year, in August, both parties would agree to total elimination of all nuclear weapons. Gorbachev publicly accepted the “zero option” but there were details that needed to be worked on in private, regarding West German Pershing missiles.(Rajcsanyi) The West German government was on board with scrapping the missiles, in favor of modernizing them…

In 1987 the Soviet Union and the U.S. agreed to sign a historic agreement to stop using intermediate-range nuclear missiles (History.com) . The same year Reagan gave a speech at the Berlin Wall famously saying in a speech “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.” In 29 months the wall was torn down (History.com) .November 1984, Ronald Reagan was reelected in a landslide, defeating Walter Mondale and his running mate Geraldine Ferraro(History.com). After leaving the White House in January…

Annotated Bibliography The Cold War, although no fighting occurred, could be considered one of the scariest wars in history. It was a war mainly between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Two Super Powers continually antagonized each other with political actions involving espionage, arms build up, and economic aid. This war began soon after World War 2 and lasted almost a decade. "The Cold War." - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. Summary:…

The ideas of Marx via Lenin started to shape through the late 1910s into the mid 1920s with Russia 's authoritarian Tsar being replaced by communism through violent revolutionary struggle (English-online.at, 2016). While the Soviet Union achieved its short term aims moving towards socialism the state did not wither away, instead to maintain power it is run in an authoritarian style. The USSR is a one party state lead by dictator Joseph Stalin that protects its interests through violent…

Perestroika is widely regarded as one, if perhaps not the sole reason, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R, came to a dissolution on December 26th, 1991. The economic reforms that it pushed for and prompted are what allowed non-communist aspects to be incorporated into the Soviet Union and caused an uproar in political reforms such as Glasnost and the eventual fall of a traditional eastern communist system to a new western style capitalist system. To understand why…

Introduction In 1970, industrialized countries entered a period of structural crisis caused by disproportions in the development of certain spheres and sectors of the economy. The crisis caused the loose of capital from industries with rising costs, forcing them to seek ways to modernize them. Especially acute situation was created in energy-intensive and material-intensive industries, for example, metallurgy. Since the middle of 1970', there were several structural crises and the…