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    The end of the Cold War was caused by both long-term and short-term factors. Long-term causes included the high economic costs of nuclear weapons and wars which weakened the Soviet Union. Nationalist movements also grew in Eastern Europe. Short-term causes included the Chernobyl disaster, Gorbachev's policies of openness and reform, and the revolutions in Lithuania, Romania and Czechoslovakia which led to the breakup of the Soviet bloc and the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe.

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    The end of the Cold War was caused by both long-term and short-term factors. Long-term causes included the high economic costs of nuclear weapons and wars which weakened the Soviet Union. Nationalist movements also grew in Eastern Europe. Short-term causes included the Chernobyl disaster, Gorbachev's policies of openness and reform, and the revolutions in Lithuania, Romania and Czechoslovakia which led to the breakup of the Soviet bloc and the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe.

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    The end of the Cold War was caused by both long-term and short-term factors. Long-term causes included the high economic costs of nuclear weapons and wars which weakened the Soviet Union. Nationalist movements also grew in Eastern Europe. Short-term causes included the Chernobyl disaster, Gorbachev's policies of openness and reform, and the revolutions in Lithuania, Romania and Czechoslovakia which led to the breakup of the Soviet bloc and the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe.

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    THE END OF THE COLD WAR

    LONG TERM CAUSES SHORT TERM CAUSES


    Ideological
    Perestroika
    Chernobyl
    Economic reforms and political changes
    The soviet union tried to hide it and that was very expensive
    Galasnosts
    (65 billion dollars to cover up)
    More openness (No censorship)
    People only found out when radioactive waste was
    found in Finland
    Economic Human crisis
    The creation of nuclear weapons was costly A lot of people died and more were left homeless
    The Afghan war was expensive and the USSR had to leave
    America stoped sending cropts to the SU Breakup of Eastern Europe
    Lithuania
    Romania
    Rise of nationalism Chezcosolovaquia
    Nationalist movements started to appear in ester Europe.
    This led to revolts and crisis
    Gorbachev ended the Brezhnev Doctrine which brought
    counties to revel for independence
    BRAKEUP OF EASTERN EUROPE
    LITHUANIA ROMANIA CZECHOSLOVAKIA
    Paved the way for Lithuania’s
    independence movement in the late Growing pressure for political reform People were unhappy cus of political
    1980s and greater civil liberties. discontent and economic stagnation
    Perestroika in Lithuania Opposition groups, such as the Civic November 17th starts of the velvet
    Increased press freedom Alliance and the Group for Social revolution
    Elections became more transparent Dialogue, gained momentum, 50th year from the nazy attack on a
    People could start their own challenging the authoritarian rule of university
    businesses Nicolae Ceaușescu. New improved communist
    What happened after? Gorbachev's less rigid stance indirectly government put forward
    The supreme council adopted the contributed to the downfall of These reforms inspired political
    act of re-establishment of the state Ceaușescu's regime. change and openness in the country,
    of Lithuania. In December 1989, a series of mass leading to the Velvet Revolution in
    Lithuania in depended in 1990 and protests and uprisings led to 1989.
    because Gorbachev was scared all Ceaușescu's overthrow and execution. The influence of Gorbachev's policies
    states would do that, he put the Romania began a transition to weakened the grip of communist
    Soviet Blockade. democracy, holding free elections and hardliners and contributed to the
    Soviet tried, unsuccessfully, to take adopting a new constitution. peaceful transition to democracy in
    control of key institutions in Vilnius- Czechoslovakia, marking the end of
    communist rule in the nation.

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