The Wenz Academy

East German students sit on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in front of border guards in November 1989.

J. GOV
Explain the causes of the end of the Cold War

President George H.W. Bush and Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev during their 1991 joint press conference in Moscow concluding the two-day US-Soviet Summit dedicated to the disarmament.

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Advances in U.S. military and technological development, the Soviet Union’s costly and ultimately failed invasion of Afghanistan, and public discontent and economic weakness in communist countries led to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

AMSCO Chapter 8.8