ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Warsaw Pact, Mikhail Gorbachev, Neoliberalism
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End of the end of the 80"s new arms race in europe, completion in soviets and us. This leads to the collapse of the soviets . For the exam: using all this history, apply and understand conceptual theories, causes of the war intra state wars, why we have civil wars and international wars. Rise of defensive weapons, intercepting weapons abm technology was hard to come about, so it was important to make good relationships. Spending resources in the third world as well. Sdi quickly increases the costs of the war, soviet union is unable to develop its economy except for miliatyr ecnomy, it couldn"t even feed its own population. The soviets and the american needed more and more resources. By the 1980s, if the nothing is done, the ecnomy will collapse. End of bipolarity and the the end of the cold war 1986-1991. Gorbachev didn"t live and dream the cold war.