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Summary The end of the Cold War note sheet
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The end of the Warsaw PactWhat was it?
- An alliance which united the communist states of Eastern Europe
Why could it not survive?
- Poland, Hungary and East Germany all rejected communism
1990
- Military cooperation ceased in early 1990
1991
- The pact was formally dissolved in July 1991
Soviet reaction
Margret Thatcher and Gorbachev
- Gorbachev was the darling of West
- British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher described him as a ‘man i can do business
with’
Russia and Gorbachev
- Gorbachev was treated with suspicion
- Leading members of the communist party believed that perestroika and glasnost had
weakened communism
- A coup was organised to remove Gorbachev from power - which initially was
successful (Gorbachev who was away from the capital, was prohibited from
returning)
- The new government overturned the freedoms gained during perestroika and
glasnost - their goal to restore the power of the Soviet Union
- The new government lasted for 3 days
- Boris Yeltsin, the future Russian president described the new government as ‘illegal’
and encouraged citizens
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