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The Cold War 'Detenté (what was SALT I (It was an agreement to reduce…
The Cold War 'Detenté
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Mikhail Gorbachev
He was known as the reformer of the USSR and was fairly inexperienced as he had come from a poor background
The Chernobyl crisis in Ukraine almost bankrupted USSR and Gorbachev started to realise the problems with being a communist country
Due to this Gorbachev set up glasnost and perestroika (two freer economies with incentives to produce goods) this kicked off a slow reform to soviet union's political system
Ronald Reagan
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The new defence was called the Strategic defence initiative, this was nicknamed Star Wars after the popular film
The new bomb that was developed was called the neutron bomb, the USSR labelled it " a capitalist's weapon" as it was designed to kill people and leave the buildings standing
endings to the cold war
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these countries included; Romania, Czechoslovakia, eastern Germany, Poland and finally Hungary
peace and tension between USA and Russia seemed to die down overtime and finally an end to what was almost world war III had finished