Mikhail Gorbachev thought that the world was on the brink of having another cold war, and this was the clash between the West and the East with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gorbachev's book Perestroika lays out his ideas of reform. It had backfired when he put taxes on Vodka. People started hoarding goods and exc.. With Glasnost the word meant openness and this had shocked many people from the west, but he had announced that they haven't gotten to the point of socialism yet. Among the more consequences of the Cold War was many domestic economies. Since the superpowers carried much of the confrontational burden, both Russia and the United States ended up with economic accountability.
The four detente events that have occurred were; the Nuclear non- Proliferation Treaty, Ostopolitik, Helsinki accords and the Salt Talks. I think that the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty turned out to be the most successful. It is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to achieve nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. So I think it had the most effect on lessening the tensions of the cold war.
The USA withdrew from Vietnam due to domestic political pressure over the morality and casualty rate of the war. The USA lost because they did not have the political will to finish the job. The domino theory was a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. In Southeast Asia, the United States government used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam, and ultimately its increasing involvement in the long-running Vietnam War. In fact, the American failure to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam had much less of a global impact than had been assumed by the domino theory.
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