The most important precipitating cause of the end of the Cold War was
a. the soft power of liberal ideas.
b. an individual, Mikhail Gorbachev.
c. imperial overstretch.
d. the decline of communist ideology.
e. the failure of the Soviet economy.
Answer: b
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