End of the Cold War- International Relations
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- End of the Cold War
- Ronald Reagan
- Calls USSR 'evil empire'
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
- Calls USSR 'evil empire'
- Becomes President of USA 1980
- Afghanistan war 1979-89
- Russia couldn't afford to continue arms race
- Economy
- USSR problems in the 1980s
- End of the Cold War
- Arab- Israeli conflict 1973
- Egypt and Syria-surprise attack on Israel
- USA saw Israel as 'important client' but also wanted to stop Israel from humiliating Egyptian President Sadat who expelled Soviet troops from Eyqpt
- Egypt and Syria-surprise attack on Israel
- Economic decline in Eastern Bloc
- End of the Cold War
- USSR problems in the 1980s
- Economy
- Population was dissatisfied and angry.
- Most of USSR population was poor and hungry
- Soviet Economy was backwards- factories and mines out of date
- Crime, alcoholism and drugs out of control in Soviet towns.
- Most of USSR population was poor and hungry
- USA saw Israel as 'important client' but also wanted to stop Israel from humiliating Egyptian President Sadat who expelled Soviet troops from Eyqpt
- 'Hotted up' cold war by investing massive sums in the US military
- Collapse in trade flow between USSR and Eastern Europe
- Economic decline in Eastern Bloc
- Goods made in E.Europe much worse than those made in US due to out of date machinery and factories
- Collapse in trade flow between USSR and Eastern Europe
- Communists kept power by censorship and secret police, back by Soviet army.
- Collapse in trade flow between USSR and Eastern Europe
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