WAR
& T H E FA L L O F T H E S O V I E T U N I O N
DETENTE
• By 1970’s:
• America trades grain & consumer goods with USSR.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
• March 1985-new
leader of USSR
• Policy of
Perestroika=
restructuring
• Creates USSR
parliament &
office of
President
END OF COLD WAR
• Reduces military
spending
• Satellite states
gain
independence.
FALL OF BERLIN WALL
• Wall fell:
• Nov. 9, 1989
• Germany
reunified
• Oct. 3, 1990
END OF THE U.S.S.R.
• States within
U.S.S.R. seek
independence
• December 25,
1991 Gorbachev
resigns
• U.S.S.R. dissolves
• Boris Yeltsin=
new President of
Russia