Who was president when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved?

President Bush and his chief foreign policy advisers were more pro-active toward Russia and the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the Communist monolith than while it was teetering.

Who was the first president of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991?

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

What president ended Cold War?

The INF Treaty of December 1987, signed by Reagan and Gorbachev, eliminated all nuclear and conventional missiles, as well as their launchers, with ranges of 500–1,000 kilometres (310–620 mi) (short-range) and 1,000–5,500 kilometres (620–3,420 mi) (intermediate-range).

Who was the US president during the building of the Berlin Wall?

The construction of the Berlin Wall did stop the flood of refugees from East to West, and it did defuse the crisis over Berlin. (Though he was not happy about it, President John F. Kennedy conceded that “a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”) Almost two years after the Berlin Wall was erected, John F.

Who was president of Russia before Gorbachev?

List of leaders

Name (lifetime) Period
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) 14 October 1964 ↓ 10 November 1982†
Yuri Andropov (1914–1984) 10 November 1982 ↓ 9 February 1984†
Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985) 9 February 1984 ↓ 10 March 1985†
Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931) 10 March 1985 ↓ 25 December 1991

Who was leader of Soviet Union during ww2?

Joseph Stalin

Vozhd Generalissimus Joseph Stalin
Succeeded by Georgy Malenkov (de facto)
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union
In office 6 May 1941 – 15 March 1946
Preceded by Vyacheslav Molotov

What did John F Kennedy do during the Cold War?

Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon both pledged to strengthen American military forces and promised a tough stance against the Soviet Union and international communism. Kennedy warned of the Soviet’s growing arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles and pledged to revitalize American nuclear forces.