end of cold war

• When did the Berlin Wall fall?

  9th November 1989
• what were the consequences of the Berlin wall fall?

  -people reunited after 30 years

  -huge symbolic event

  -other soviet states now felt confident to gain freedom,
• how did the soviet union collapse and the consequences?

  -Brezhnev Doctrine over SS broke free (no threat or violence)

  -Warsaw Pact ended 1990

  -Europe no longer divided, didn't have to follow rules

  -no arms race, iron curtain ends

  -Gorbachev falls in 1991 due to hard strict communism
• What was the significance of the Reykjavik Summit in 1986?

  Improved relations but no agreement reached
• What was the outcome of the Washington Summit in 1987?

  Agreed to abolish intermediate range missiles
• What happened at the Malta Summit in 1989?

  Both sides announced peaceful intentions
• What happened to satellite states after the Brezhnev Doctrine ended?

  They could introduce reforms without fear
• What happened to Gorbachev on Christmas Day 1990?

  He resigned and dissolved the USSR
• What was the outcome of the Warsaw Pact in 1991?

  It was formally dissolved