INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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Citizens supported the efforts to be more powerful than the United States.
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Citizens asked Gorbechev to continue his fight against Ronald Reagan.
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Citizens looked for ways to ration and save in order to support Gorbachev.
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Citizens’ living conditions worsened causing them to want independence.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Military expenditures by the US during the Cold War were estimated to have been roughly 8-9 trillion dollars, and nearly 100, 000 Americans died during the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Detailed explanation-2: -The economy of the Soviet Union was based on state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, and industrial manufacturing. An administrative-command system managed a distinctive form of central planning.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Government, led by Lenin and later by Stalin, advocated a communist system. In a capitalist system, market forces dictate prices according to supply and demand.