COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
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Soviet economy couldn’t handle another arms race
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He wanted to compete against STAR WARS
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The Soviet Union wanted to become democratic
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -1987: On December 8th, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The treaty was the first in which the United States and Soviet Union agreed to eliminate a weapons class and reduce the number of weapons in their nuclear stockpile.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanently forswear all of their nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5, 500 kilometers.
Detailed explanation-3: -US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty on 8 December 1987. The US Senate approved the treaty on 27 May 1988, and Reagan and Gorbachev ratified it on 1 June 1988.