Write a research about the events that led to the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the role of Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan in this process

Factors Leading to the End of the Cold War

The Cold War has finally been declared over . The pundits analyzing the origin of the Cold War are now admitting that the mistrust between the Capitalist society and Soviet Communism was responsible for the Cold War . The Western powers were already working against the Soviet Union [Polar Bear Expedition , 2005] due to these ideological differences . The alliance during the 2nd World War was an alliance against a common enemy , Germany . The end of the 2nd World War dismantled this alliance of convenience and

the cat and mouse game began all over again

Soviet Union with 20 million of its people dead and economy in tatters was not a willing participant in the Cold War but joined in aggressively and for 50 years poured its resources to counter what it perceived as a threat to its security , until finally the strain of marinating the competition took its toll and Soviet Union finally collapsed and disintegrated giving victory to the United States . It is indeed a defeat for Soviet Communism as dismantling of Soviet Union has brought countries friendly to United States at the Russian b which Soviet Union so desperately wanted to prevent by surrounding itself with pro-Soviet countries

The reasons for the end of the Cold War were indeed economic . The controlled economy , heavy subsidies to satellite states , maintaining a military to counter the perceived threat from United States and its NATO allies , and assisting countries with similar ideologies required a flourishing economy which the Soviet Union could not establish . At the height of Afghanistan War , it is said that 25 of the being spent on maintaining the military [Regan , 1988] . Soviet economy was never at par with that of United States and the arms race in which USSR had to enter continued to chip away into USSR economy until it finally collapsed

What proved to be the last straw will continue to be debated for a long time and there are many claimants for this credit . Some British cite Margaret Thatcher 's contribution to the collapse of Soviet Union the Mujahideen (Holy warriors ) of Afghanistan also have a claim , East German 's 'struggle ' and Fall of Berlin Wall , Gorbachev 's "glasnost (liberalization , opening up ) and "perestroika (reconstruction ) and Reagan 's staunchly anti-communist policies all would like to lay a claim to this honor . While the fact remains that the end of the Cold War came as a result of Soviet systems incapability to sustain the economic drain on competing with United States . This was the victory of capitalist system and failure of communism as a result of years of economic pressure which the Soviet Union could not sustain

Role of the fall of Berlin Wall : The Fall of Berlin Wall and Merger of East Germany with West Germany can only be described as a manifestation of the bankruptcy of East Germany and Soviet Union 's inability due to its own economic problem to prop up a bankrupt economy

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