INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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It created the Soviet Union.
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It caused the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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It promoted the ideas of communism.
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It signaled an end to Soviet domination in eastern Europe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -By October 1990, Germany was reunified, triggering the swift collapse of the other East European regimes. People celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thirteen months later, on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reunification of Germany marked one of the final events of the Cold War in Europe, bringing to an end the East-West division and inaugurating a new era of cooperation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Soviet-occupied East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic, was reunited with West Germany on October 3, 1990. And the Soviet Union collapsed a year later. Emily Haber, Germany’s ambassador to the United States, described the collapse of the Berlin Wall as a “sudden gift out of the blue.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Legally, the reunification did not create a third state out of the two. Rather, West Germany effectively absorbed East Germany. Accordingly, on Unification Day, 3 October 1990, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, and five new federated states on its former territory joined the Federal Republic of Germany.