AP World History: Modern / Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization (c. 1900–present)
8.8 End of the Cold War
Notes
The Soviet economy stagnated; Gorbachev's reforms (glasnost, perestroika); revolutions in Eastern Europe (1989); the fall of the Berlin Wall; the USSR dissolved in 1991.
Practice
The Cold War ended with:
Dissolution.
Gorbachev's glasnost meant:
Openness.
The Soviet economy weakened partly because of:
Stagnation.
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