The End of the Cold War
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Key Questions
- 1Why did the Soviet Union collapse so suddenly in the early 1990s?
- 2What role did Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan play in ending the Cold War?
- 3How did the end of the Cold War change Britain's global priorities?
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