WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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The USSR agreed to join the USA in a war against Europe’s economic power
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The USA agreed to accept Communism as their economic system
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The USSR adopted a restructuring of their economy away from Communism which led to the internal collapse of the USSR
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The USA began trading with the USSR and was forced by American businesses to accept the end of the Cold War
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Detailed explanation-1: -The unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Gorbachev sealed the fate of the Soviet Union. Planned by hard-line Communists, the coup diminished Gorbachev’s power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian politics.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The literal meaning of perestroika is “reconstruction", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system, in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. Each was brought about or shaped by the demands and actions of ordinary Europeans, who were determined to instigate change.