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The End of the Cold War

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Eastern European Communist Collapses, 1989 Poland June '89 Solidarity wins Hungary May-Oct '89 Border opens E. Germany Nov 9 '89 Wall falls Czech. Nov '89 Velvet Revolution Bulgaria Nov '89 Romania Dec '89 Ceausescu falls USSR dissolves Dec 1991 "Tear down this wall!" — Reagan, Berlin, June 12, 1987 Gorbachev's "Sinatra Doctrine" replaced Brezhnev Doctrine

The cascade shown above is best explained by which Soviet-side change?

  • A

    The Warsaw Pact's invasion of Poland in 1981

  • B

    Gorbachev's reforms (glasnost, perestroika) and his refusal to use force as in the Brezhnev Doctrine

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  • C

    Stalin's purges of Eastern European Communist parties

  • D

    U.S. forces directly liberating Eastern Europe

Explanation

Gorbachev's reforms and explicit renunciation of military intervention (the "Sinatra Doctrine") allowed satellite regimes to fall. Combined with Reagan's pressure, this produced the velvet revolutions of 1989.

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