How did the Cold War end?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The era of détente in the 1970s witnessed an improvement in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China.
b. U.S.-Soviet agreements such as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (1972 ) and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (1991 ) contributed to ending the arms race.
c. Mikhail Gorbachev's announcement in 1988 that the Soviet Union would no longer interfere with the affairs of eastern European countries dismantled the Soviet bloc.
d. The emergence of civil society in many of the eastern European countries and earlier political and economic reforms paved the way for revolution in 1989.
e. Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost weakened rather than strengthened Soviet communism as intended.
f. The collapse of the Soviet Union due to nationalist pressures brought the Cold War to an end.
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