Feb 13, 2025 · Communist regimes began to collapse in eastern Europe, and democratic governments rose in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, followed by the …

Three events heralded the end of the Cold War: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. All came in the last years of the tumultuous …

The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist …

Feb 27, 2025 · How did the Cold War end? The Cold War came to a close gradually. The unity in the bloc was unraveling throughout the 1960s and ’70s as a split occurred between China. …

Oct 27, 2009 · The End of the Cold War and Effects. Almost as soon as he took office, President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) began to implement a new approach to international relations. …

Mar 29, 2022 · How Did The Cold War End? December 1988: Gorbachev meets with both George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. It’s agreed that the Cold War must end. 1989: Gorbachev is …

During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself …

After 1969 Presidents Nixon and Ford scaled back American commitments, withdrew from Vietnam, pursued arms control treaties, and fostered détente with the U.S.S.R., while …

The end of the Cold War. When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no one predicted the revolution he would bring. A dedicated reformer, …

By 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, marking the definitive end of the Cold War era. The Cold War emerged in the aftermath of World War II as a global struggle between two superpowers …