Mikhail Gorbachev

to the actions of Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George Bush, as well as the breakup of communist satellite nations. Ronald Reagan with his increased spending in the defense sector instigated an arms race with the Soviet Union in an attempt to overwhelm the Soviet Union through military influence. However, the Soviet Union was unable to keep up with the arms race due to a weak and stagnating economy since building new weapons was costly. Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 also introduced two new policies

There was a competition between the Soviet Union and other country. Economic problems made the Soviet Union to become weak compare to other countries. Gorbachev was still believed in socialism and he wants to save the Soviet Union from economic crisis. Gorbachev wanted to do some activities to make some changes and in 1987, the United States and Soviet Union got an agreement on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces. They wanted to eliminate of nuclear weapons. They also talked about the Strategic Arms

The Collapse of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was a global superpower, possessing the largest armed forces on the planet with military bases from Angola in Africa, to Vietnam in South-East Asia, to Cuba in the Americas. When Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, nobody expected than in less than seven years the USSR would disintergrate into fifteen separate states. Gorbachev's

Mikhail Gorbachev is a foreign leader who worked with Reagan and also wanted to eliminate communism. If the Soviet Union collapsed, then all influences of communism would stop, which is what Reagan and Gorbachev wanted (Marsico, 84). The nation as a whole agreed that they did not want communism to spread beyond the borders of East Germany and seep into their

saw it’s ending, which left only one dominate nation, United State of America. The arms race with the USA seemed to be too much for the USSR, as their economy fell into turmoil. A strong power in the world always needs a strong economy, however Gorbachev changed a strong economy into a staggering economy about to collapse. Another reason why westerners could see the collapse of the Soviet Union in the near future was because of the external factors that played in, for example the Reagan administration

Mikhail Gorbachev was born in Privolnoye in North Caucasus Russia. His childhood was very hard because at that time Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin. The Germans invaded the Soviet Union when he was ten and Nazi troops occupied the territory of Stavropol, the area where Gorbachev lived, until 1943. Even after their departure the effects of the occupation continued to make life hard and made a lasting impression on the young Gorbachev. In 1950, he moved to Moscow to study at the Moscow State University

1980s and this time was between the presidents of both countries. Ronal Reagan was US president during this period and Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of USSR. Ronald Reagan was early hated by the liberals, but gained favor when he challenged the leader of Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. On June 12, 1987, President Reagan stood in front of Brandenburg Gate, commanding Mikhail Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin wall. The wall separated Germans in East Germany (a socialist zone occupied by the Soviet

The person I choose for this topic is Ronald Reagan, he is a big part on how the Cold War ended. Russia, as everyone knows, has always been competitive with the U.S.A, the two countries always go back and forth with each other to be the first at everything. Now the Berlin Wall had been there for some time, ever since 1961. The communist government of Eastern Germany created the wall because they wanted to prevent disaffected people who were trying to fleeing to the West. But with this little did

of 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes general secretary of the Communist Party, bringing with him a wave of reform. His reform appeared in the form of a dual program, “perestroika” (to restructure) and “glasnost”(openness), changing the Soviet Union’s domestic governmental policies, economic practices, and international relations- for Gorbachev felt that his goals to improve the Soviet Union’s economy couldn 't be done without reforming the political and social structures as well. Gorbachev hoped that

The Reagan Doctrine was never a single formal document that would state Reagan’s foreign policy, as it was more so a term invented by the media as a way to refer and mark the vast change in U.S. foreign policy compared to Reagan’s predecessor. It is also speculated that the fact there is no official document to account for is intentional on Reagan and his foreign policy advisor’s behalf. Although it could’ve had a positive impact for the sake of public relations and garnering support, the key foreign