AP EH CHAPTER 29: THE CONTEMPORARY WESTERN …

Like the Vietnam War, the war in Afghanistan for the Soviets demonstrated that a superpower was actually limited in the face of strong nationalist, guerilla-type opposition . The End of the Cold War. the accession of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 to power in the Soviet Union also played a key role in ending the Cold War. the ruling policies of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union evoked a “New ... ................
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