THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Several communist-based governments collapsed across Eastern Europe.
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The United States assisted the anti-communist government of South Vietnam.
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President Nixon visited the People’s Republic of China to reopen diplomatic relations.
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Senator McCarthy led investigations to uncover communist actors working in Hollywood films.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold-war division of Europe-came down.
Detailed explanation-2: -Three events heralded the end of the Cold War: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gorbachev’s decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Communism’s failure in Eastern Europe and revolution Gorbachev’s abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine (which called on the Soviet Union to intervene in countries where socialist rule was under threat) meant unlike previous occasions, the USSR no longer had the means or will to impose military control.
Detailed explanation-5: -By 1990, the former communist leaders were out of power, free elections were held, and Germany was whole again. The peaceful collapse of the regimes was by no means pre-ordained. Soviet tanks crushed demonstrators in East Berlin in June 1953, in Hungary in 1956, and again in Czechoslovakia in 1968.