Why did the Cold War come to an end?
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- Created on: 04-05-14 15:06
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- Why did the Cold War come to an end?
- Soviet-American relations
- Andropov attempted domestic reform but was too ill
- Chernenko wanted no reforms
- Gerontocracy- all old leaders
- Relations became bad between 1980-85
- Shooting down of Korean flight 1983
- Face to face meetings needed but Soviet leaders too old
- Mikhail Gorbachev- New Political Thinking
- Gorbachev younger- had new ideas and wanted reform
- Democratisation- get more new people involved in communist party
- Perestroika- restructure economy and improve efficiency and quality of goods
- Glasnost- encourage people to put forward new ideas
- Summits
- Washington 1987- INF signed so all ballistic missiles scrapped
- Reykjavik 1986- No agreement because Reagan wouldn't stop SDI
- Moscow 1988- More signing of agreements on the INF treaty
- Geneva 1985- Not much agreed but relations were improving
- Malta 1989- Both leaders declared Cold War as over
- End of Brezhnev Doctrine
- Hungary- In 1988 Kadar, communist leader, sacked; 1989 Hungary opened it's borders to the West
- Poland- No longer communist from 1990
- Hungary- No longer communist from 1990
- Poland- 1988 government lifted martial law; 1989 Solidarity beat communists in elections
- East Germany- Protests take Honecker out of power; new leader Krenz starts reforms
- East Germany- 1989 Berlin Wall comes down; Germany becomes one
- Romania- Ceausescu the leadertaken out of power and executed 1989: Communism destroyed
- Czech- 1989 Velvet Revolution and no communism; splits into Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Soviet-American relations
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