Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

The main honour and credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall belongs to Pope John Paul II and it is wrong to say it was the work of former Soviet president Mijail Gorbachev said the historic leader ...

Shortly after the Berlin Wall was torn down ... of the Soviet gross national product during the 1980s, including Gorbachev's first four years in office. Soviet defense spending was not reduced ...

According to the Berlin Wall Foundation, there were 140 deaths at the Wall, with at least 90 at the hands of GDR border soldiers. In the face of former soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's ...

East Side Gallery3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world ...

Encouraged by Gorbachev’s reforms, Warsaw Pact nations challenge Communist authority. Mass demonstrations lead to the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism. Having made a name ...

Gorbachev recognised many of the key problems ... during this period for people in the West was the fall of the Berlin Wall. While the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, the Soviet ...