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November: start of the 1958–1959 Berlin crisis, ... Some later claim this was the unofficial beginning of the end of the Cold War. Gorbachev agrees to START I treaty.
Western analysts suggest that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War, only five or six of the post-communist states are on a path to joining the rich and capitalist world while most are falling behind, some to such an extent that it will take several decades to catch up to where they were before the collapse of communism. [340] [341]
End of the Cold War – While many observers state the 1989 Malta Summit was the end of the Cold War, it was December 1991 before the Presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union formally recognized the conflict's end, with the Soviet Union also being dissolved at that time. Some key events leading up to the end include:
3 Start of World War II (1939–1941) 4 ... until mid-1946—all of which can be considered as initial moves in the Cold War. Even before the war came to an end, it ...
The Cold War lasted roughly 45 years from the end of World War II to the Soviet collapse in 1991. The era was defined by an intense political, economic and military rivalry between the U.S. and U ...
Question one: How did the Cold War start? “I looked at my watch and looked at her,” Clune says. ... By the end of the four-and-half hour session, “I had no words left,” she says.
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (2010). popular; Matlock, Jack F. Autopsy on an Empire (1995) online by US ambassador to Moscow; Matlock, Jack F. Reagan and Gorbachev : how the Cold War ended (2004) online; Powaski, Ronald E. The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991 (1998) Romero ...
The Cold War would end, at least in that form, but so would the dominance of the Big Three networks – and the prevalence of shared viewing experiences – that “The Day After” so vividly ...