These meetings were set up to limit the quantity and kinds of missiles that each had. These discussions were successful and the settlement was signed in 1972. In 1979, Soviet Groups attacked Afghanistan. The US chooses to back the Muslim paramilitary fighters and assist the communist threat, the Soviets withdraw in 1988. I find this extremely ironic since we are currently in Afghanistan fighting the same individuals that we previously supported two decades ago. Our task was completed there, to support the individuals to be unrestricted from cruelty which was perhaps the contrary of what the Soviets wanted.
In 1985, Russian President Gorbachev comes to power and has a different view on US-Soviet relations. Gorbachev rings in a new era of reform and restructuring. Gorbachev helped bring an end to the Cold War. The cold war ended in 1989 with the disassembling of the Berlin Wall, when the nations of Eastern Europe redeemed freedom, lastly the Soviet Union crumbled; around there was an extensive mood all over the world, universal peace had drop away on Earth. The distress of hostilities in which weapons of mass damage would be used if they hadn’t …show more content…
The cumulative costs of keeping up with the arms battle and the massive peak that the Afghan War partook on their economy confidently helped make these hard resolutions easier. The Soviet grip was slacking and numerous limitations and took full swing to open and unrestricted elections started to overthrow the communist government in the Eastern European countries. In 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved into separate republics and the Cold War was finally over. The Cold War had colossal impacts on our philosophy in America and the world; we see Cold War leftovers everywhere if we intentionally look closely. I will say that our world that we live in would have not been the same than it is now; technology for example may not have increased as much without the competitiveness of the two countries demanding to surpass one another. I believe that the space race would also have technologically advanced differently, but having tons of more dollars to spend on other equipment as an alternative to maintaining huge resources may have also altered our world in a different