Soviet Union leader ..... became good friends with President Ronald Reagan and allowed citizens of the Soviet Union to have more freedoms than they did in the past.

COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Soviet Union leader ____ became good friends with President Ronald Reagan and allowed citizens of the Soviet Union to have more freedoms than they did in the past.

A	Adolf Hitler
B	Mikhail Gorbachev
C	Emperor Hirohito
D	Harry Truman

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev, capitalist and communist, were an unlikely pairing but their series of high profile summits have been praised for helping to end the cold war. Together they negotiated a landmark deal in 1987 to scrap intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The speech is commonly known by a key line from the middle part: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!". Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled West Berlin since 1961.

Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike previous Soviet leaders, Gorbachev did not intervene when popular protest movements swept across the Communist countries of Eastern Europe in 1989 and the Berlin Wall fell.

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WORLD HISTORY

INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939

COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION