How did the cold war end?

Answer 1

Most people consider the fall of the Berlin wall as the end of the cold war. Perhaps to the young it seemed inevitable but on that day in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down (brick by brick sold off in a capitalist venture it should be noted!) It seemed almost surreal. The giant monolith of the Soviet Union had been defeated. The foundation of the Soviet Union had been crumbling for a decade... some might say it had never actually been solid yet nonetheless for those of us that lived through the Cold War the sight was still shocking. It all seemed so sudden.

Many people believe that the former USSR could not keep up with the USA and UK on a financial level and broke apart from the inside out. The Soviet Union spent billions to try to keep up with the arms race but could no longer afford to do so. They could no longer afford to produce basic consumer goods and the economy and system collapsed.

Answer 2

It didn't end so much as it faded away. The communist countries with which we were engaged in this so-called Cold War realized that making money wasn't such a bad thing - communism is a lot of fun, but it doesn't pay the bills or buy the ipod.

I know, this sounds flippant, but that's the basic idea behind it. As communication crossed over the borders people realized our differences weren't all that great, and it might just be better to coopoerate a little bit.

And all that spy stuff was just getting old.

Answer 3

Cold War : Political, social,economic and military Confrontation, between two very different political ideologies. Communism / Capitalism.

The Cold war came to an end when the communist countries, especially Russia suddenly realized that the social and economic system they had chosen around 75 years ago to get them out of their backwardness, was the wrong one. Their countries and population were after 75 years of applying Communist methods, still living meager lives in hunger and misery.
Had they not been so embarrassed by their failure they would have had shamefully admitted it much sooner.
Secretary General of the communist party in Russia Mikhail Gorbachev denounced the ineffectiveness of the Communist system until it totally collapse. in 1991.

Anyhow, once this ideological failure was swept under the rug of history, the Cold War ended.
There was no other political ideology to confront capitalism.

Answer 4

It ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 , which was a union of Russia and 16 other republics . it was a communist empire with no emperor. the collapse of communism was the end result of series of failures that made the citizens in that huge country live on subsidies . Gorbachev ; the last president tried to make reforms which will bring some sanity to the whole system by changing the central committee of the communist party that ruled the country to a commitee that consists of all republic governors only but instead the Russian nationalists didn't like it and carried out a coup that ended to series of events that left the other 16 republics independent suddenly .

Answer 5

With a whimper.

As others have said, the Soviet Union bankrupted itself with the arms race. Add to that the people who demonstrated for democracy and brought production to a halt (Poland), or demanded change (Russia).

While the Soviet Union was undergoing reorganization, many countries broke away. The old USSR could not strike back because their soldiers hadn't been paid.

The USSR DID have achievements. Their most notable is not the space race, but the literacy rate. When they came to power, the literacy rate in Russia was only about 3%. When the USSR fell, they had a literacy rate of 93%. The USSR made Russia ready for democracy by educating its citizens. It simply was not ready in 1918.

Answer 6

Mikhail Gorbachev became President of the USSR in 1987 and intoduced the policy of Glasnost (openness), allowing much more personal freedom in that country than had existed since the Russian Revolution seventy years earlier. As a result, totalitarian authority in the Soviet Union began to crumble bit by bit, many Soviet republics became independent countries, and communism gave way to a "market economy." For a while, the US and Russia were on very amicable terms, which have, sadly, chilled considerably in recent years.

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Answer 8

The economy in USSR declines (like alot of communist countries at the time) because the way communist systerm works and Soviet finally collapsed.

Answer 9

With a wimper.

Answer 10

The USA, gave Russia and the rest of the commies a final warning. Russia was broke, and the Belin wall fell. Search engines might help you,, ? duh?>