Ronald ReagonRonald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. From 1981 and took a second term up until 1989. Reagan was known for ending the Cold War. He was from California and was a cowboy movie star, many people never thought a movie star would become President.
For the Berlin Wall, Reagan had a famous speech were he said "tare down this wall". The follow few days the Berlin wall was torn down and the USSR allowed this. Many people looked at the West Berlin as being free and the East as being Communist. The wall separated many families when it went up and now after many years families are back together. From this the USSR gave up control of their territories they had from World War II leading to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. |
Fall of the USSRWhen the Berlin wall fell the USSR economy was already in chaos. The leader of the USSR Mickail Gorbachev came up with these two words Glasnost and Perestroika. Glasnost opened up Western ideas and goods into the USSR. Perestroika gave USSR citizens a share in the economy such as stokes. During this time of when the Berlin wall fell, the USSR collapses from 1989-1991. From this the domino theory was seen because many countries got rid of being communist. The other reason why the USSR collapse was that the Russian people were tried of being communist and it didn't help the economy. The USSR turned into the Russian Federation. Even to this day the Russian Federation is still corrupted and not stable in it's government.
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Gallery of the End of the Cold War
The United States
Many people in the United States were shocked that the Cold War had ended after 46 years of fearing of nuclear destruction. For many people in the United States they grew up with the Cold War culture, having bomb shelters, missile crisis and proxy wars. Now that the Cold War ended many trillion of dollars was spent for a war that never happened. The war is seen as a win for the whole world for not being in a nuclear winter from both the United States and USSR.