Cold War Ended

What resulted from this taste of freedom was the revolution that ended the cold war.

Cold war ended. The cold war was an ideological war rather than a military one. The cold war ended when mikhail gorbachev became the leader of the soviet union. That summer a coup by conservative hardliners took place. The ussr a marxist state was trying to gain supremacy over their rival the united states a capitalist state.

The cold war roughly lasted between 1947 and 1991. After taking control of the country in 1985 he set about reforming governmental policies. The cold war came to an end when the last war of soviet occupation ended in afghanistan the berlin wall came down in germany and a series of mostly peaceful revolutions swept the soviet bloc states of eastern europe in 1989. The cold warwas a period of geopoliticaltension between the soviet unionand the united statesand their respective allies the eastern blocand the western bloc after world war ii.

The name cold war was used because there was no physical conflict between the two sides. When mikhail gorbachev assumed power of the soviet union in 1985 he instituted the policies of glasnost and perestroika in hopes of sparking the sluggish economy. After the deaths of three successive elderly. The dismantling of the berlin wall in 1989 is often viewed as the symbolic end of the cold war.

The period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrineto the 1991 dissolution of the soviet union.