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The end of the cold war (Reagan and the cold war (Actions (Gave the go…
The end of the cold war
Reagan and the cold war
Actions
Gave the go ahead for Strategic Defence Initiative
Impact
Drained the Soviets
Policies
Soviets were bad and Americans were good
Gorbachev changing soviet union
Beliefs and policies
Realist saw that the USSR was in a terrible state
The idealist thought communist rule would improve peoples lives
The optimist believed that communism would work
Openness policy
reduced state control of the media
Restructuring policy
allowed people to trade for profit
Withdrew troops from afghanistan
Gorbachev and Reagan summits
Reduced nuclear armament
Berlin wall comes down
Gorbachev introduced a non-intervention policy
Symbolled the the end of the oppressive policy
November 1980
Collapse of communism in Easter Europe
May 1989
Hungarians dismantle the fence separating them from non-communist Austria
Fall of the Berlin wall
Poland
June
Free elections are held
First non-communist leader