INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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The Cold War was just heating up.
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The Cold War was never going to end.
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The Cold War was ending.
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The Cold War was building strength and gaining territories.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1989, Poland launched a revolution against the Soviet Union that eventually spread to other Eastern European nations. The Revolutions of 1989 and the economic stagnation of the Soviet Union ultimately led to the dissolution of the Iron Curtain in the early 1990s.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of a new chapter in our history. The Fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 paved the way for the reunification of Germany and reunification of Europe after more than 40 years of political and economic division between the West and the East.
Detailed explanation-3: -Then, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent, ” ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although it seemed as if the Iron Curtain’s restrictions were a bit relaxed after Stalin died in 1953, the Berlin Wall’s construction reinforced them in 1961. It was only in 1991 when the Cold War ended and the one party communist rule in Eastern Europe was abandoned that the Curtain ceased to exist.