COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Ethnic wars
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Russian Revolution
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Tanks surrounded his home and forced him to
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Detailed explanation-1: -On 25 December, Gorbachev resigned and turned over his presidential powers-including control of the nuclear launch codes-to Yeltsin, who was now the first president of the Russian Federation. That evening, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian tricolor flag.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the coup’s wake, the Soviet Union dissolved against Gorbachev’s wishes. After resigning the presidency, he launched the Gorbachev Foundation, became a vocal critic of Russian presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, and campaigned for Russia’s social-democratic movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Faced with a changing political climate, Gorbachev abandoned the Brezhnev Doctrine. In 1988 he withdrew troops from Afghanistan, and later that year he refused to intervene as a wave of democratization swept through Eastern Europe. In 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gorbachev wanted to radically reform how the USSR was governed, how it operated and how it co-operated with foreign countries. He introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to improve relations with the West and the state of the Soviet economy.