The Fall of the Soviet Union
Haley Daniels and Lluvia Lopez
Who?
- Ukraine
- The Russian Federation
- Belarus
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Moldova
- Turkmenistan
- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
- The Soviet Leader: Mikhail Gorbachev
- The US and USSR was involved because Gorbachev believed that the Soviet economy depended on better relationships with the rest of the world
When and where?
- Christmas Day, 1991
- Representatives from 11 republican soviets went to the capital Kazakh city of Alma- Ata and said that they where no longer a part of the Soviet Union
Why?
- The main reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union was weaken political system and economic downfall
- It was an end to a long and bloody time in history
What?
- It was the fall of a great nation
- The end of some Communism in Europe
- The resign of the leader Gorbachev
How?
- The end of some communism
- The United States became a more powerful country
- New Countries developed the idea of communism
Timeline
1985- Gorbachev ascends to power
1986- Oil prices fall almost by half
1989- Soviet Troops withdraw from Afghanistan
November 1989- Berlin wall fall
1990- Soviet Union Passes law allowing republicans to break away
1990-91- USSR pulls out Nuclear and conventional forces
Christmas Day 1991- The Fall of the Soviet Union