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$1.5 trillion. Included funds for the MX ICBM, Trident II SLBM, and Strategic Defense Initiative
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Inspired religious nationalism, hence contributing to the growth of anti-communism and nationalist feeling in Poland.
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Announced a temporary moratorium on nuclear testing. Also fired long-time Soviet foreign minister and hardliner Andrei Gromyko and replaced him with reformist Eduard Shevardnadze.
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Gorbachev accepted Reagan's zero option plan and even proposed the abolishment of all nuclear weapons within 10 years. Reagan the cyka blat refused to scrap the SDI.
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Decreed the total elimination of an entire class of nuclear weapons already in operation. Also drastically reduced Soviet nuclear weapons assumetrically to the US (1836 Soviet missiles vs 867 US missiles)
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Endored the priniciple of freedom of choice. and announced a unilateral reduction of Soviet armed forces by half a million men in 2 years, and substantial cuts in tanks and combat aircraft in Eastern Europe. --> Signalled to the Eastern Europeans that the USSR was willing to let go.
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Marked the end of the Cold War as defined by the division in Europe.
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Captured the public's attention and marked the end of the Cold War as defined by the division in Europe.
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Accorded gretaer autonomy to the Soviet republics
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Lithuania, Latvia, followed by Estonia.
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(Conventional Armed Forces in Europe) prescribed substantial reductions in Soviet conventional weapons.
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Destroys Gorbachev's reputation whilst cementing Boris Yeltsin's.
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USSR bo liao :(
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Annexation of Crimea Cyka Blat
