The+End+of+the+Cold+War+and+Impact+on+U.S.+and+S.U.

=By: Rachael Lang=

=Overview: The End of the Cold War=
 * ====Come the mid 1980's, there was new hope for the U.S. and the Soviet Union as their relationship was improving. A summit was held in Reykjavik, Iceland in October of 1986. At this, Mikhail Gorbachev suggested a reduction of arsenals on both the U.S. and S.U. sides by 50 percent. Unfortunately, though the summit seemed promising, it ended in failure. This did however leave an influence on the U.S. and encouraged what would later be known as the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The INF treaty was signed in Washington on December 8th, 1987. It eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, and was the first arms pact to do so.====

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 * ====The Eastern bloc was slowly beginning to crumble. The border with Hungary, Austria and the west, was stripped of its barbed wire by the Hungarian government hoping to get a response out of the Soviet Union. The Soviets, however, did nothing. Though travel through here was still not free, the iron curtain was starting to unravel.====
 * ====On November 10th, 1989, history was made when the Berlin Wall came crashing down. As the year came to a close, every leader in Eastern European nations, with the exception of Bulgaria, had been ousted by popular uprisings.====


 * Soviet republics were beginning to gain independence during the mid 1990's. After several attempts to overthrow Gorbachev, the Soviet Union was no more. The Commonwealth of Independent States was formed by Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, and After 45 long years, the Cold war finally came to an end.

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=The Impact of the Cold War on the United States:=
 * With the end of the Cold War, the U.S. became the only world superpower, making them hated in the eyes of many other nations.


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 * Instilled fear of communism in Americans


 * Americans liked the idea of an ideologically foreign enemy
 * Things like the Lavender Scare left lasting impressions of people in society
 * Rise in McCarthyism
 * Gap in pop culture because many famous actors and actresses were blacklisted
 * Money was poured into mainly weapons and the space race



=The Impact of the Cold War on the Soviet Union:=
 * ====Many lost faith in the government====
 * The collapse of the Berlin Wall

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 * Stripped of their "superpower" status
 * Total COLLAPSE!
 * Turned into Commonwealth of Independent States (Russia)
 * Worldwide collapse of communism

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