WORLD HISTORY

INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939

COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ronald Reagan was the leader of the United States during the Cold War. Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of what country?
A
Iraq
B
Berlin
C
Afghanistan
D
Soviet Union
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country’s dissolution in 1991.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Washington Summit of 1987 was a Cold War-era meeting between United States president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev that took place on December 8–10.

Detailed explanation-4: -Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1982 and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet between 1960 and 1964 and again between 1977 and 1982.

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