Unit 8.8 - End of Cold War
"The war was defrosted"
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The USSR fell, thats all folks
Failing USSR
- USSR economy was stagnating (not growing)
- Attempted to invade Afghanistan
- Drained a lot of resources
- Remember, no growing economy, no more resources.
Economic Problems
- Big arms races between USA and USSR
- USA accelerating at rapid speed with multiple programs and defense strategies
- USSR could not sustain this race, lead to economic decline
Gorbachev Reforms
- New leader Gorbachev (rip 1931 ~ 2022) attempts free policies
- Uses perestroika to reconstruct economy and glasnost to open up to free press
- New democratic movements
- Final nail in coffin with a failed communist coup attempting to out Gorbachev before he could reform USSR
- Collapsed into multiple nations, mainly modern day Russiagh