The End of the Cold War Leonid Yuri Konstantin

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The End of the Cold War Leonid Yuri Konstantin Brezhnev Andropov Chernenko 1964-1982 1982-1984 1984-1985

New Soviet Leadership General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze

Gorbachev’s New Thinking Perestroika: Restructuring Glasnost: Openness Foreign Policy 1987: Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty 1990: Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty 1991: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) Treaty

Berlin Wall 1989

The USSR “Empire”

August 1991 and the Fall of USSR Boris Yeltsin December 25, 1991

Why did the USSR collapse? Why did the Cold War end?