The Cold War truly began to break down during the administration of Mikhail Gorbachev, who changed the more totalitarian aspects of the Soviet government.

The next year, the Soviet Union consented to the reunification of Germany. In 1991, the Soviet Union broke up into 15 independent states.

27 окт. 2009 г. · Truman sent the American military into Korea, but the Korean War dragged to a stalemate and ended in 1953. Containment · The Cold War and the Space...

The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe.

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.

In late 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed and 15 newly independent nations were born from its corpse, including a Russia with a democratically elected, ...

Communist regimes were ousted in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. On Christmas Day, the brutal Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were summarily ...

On December 8, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Republic, formed the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.).

This led to the fall of the communist governments of Europe from 1989, which concluded with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Western Bloc included the ... Effects of the Cold War · Canada in the Cold War · Cold war (term) · Cold War in Asia