Mikhail Gorbachev

Examples of Mikhail Gorbachev in the following topics:

• The "New World Order"

  • Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.
  • Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.
  • Gorbachev's initial formulation was wide-ranging and idealistic, but his ability to press for it was severely limited by the internal crisis of the Soviet system.
  • Gorbachev would then expand the phrase to include UN strengthening, and great power cooperation on a range of North-South, economic, and security problems.
  • The principal statement creating the new world order concept came from Mikhail Gorbachev's December 7, 1988 speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

• The Reagan Administration

  • Reagan later negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals.
  • Gorbachev's attempts at reform, as well as summit conferences with U.S.

• The End of the Cold War

  • During 1987 summit meetings, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to nuclear arms reductions, ushering in the end of the decades-long Cold War.
  • By the time Mikhail Gorbachev had ascended to power in 1985, the Soviets suffered from an economic growth rate close to zero percent, combined with a sharp fall in hard currency earnings as a result of the downward slide in world oil prices.
  • Reform required Gorbachev to redirect the country's resources from costly Cold War military commitments to more profitable areas in the civilian sector.
  • Many U.S. administration officials doubted that Gorbachev was serious about winding down the arms race; however, President Reagan recognized the real change in the direction of the Soviet leadership and shifted to diplomacy to personally push Gorbachev further with his reforms.
  • Reagan and Gorbachev built a close relationship and contributed greatly to the peaceful end of the Cold War

• NATO and the Militarization and Interventions Abroad

  • It was characterized by a strategy of "peace through strength" followed by a warming of relations with the Soviet Union, and resulted in an end to the Cold War when Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power.

• The George H.W. Bush Administration

  • In 1989, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Bush met with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
  • Another summit was held in July of 1991, when the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) was signed by Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow.
  • The treaty was nine years in the making and was the first major arms agreement since the signing of the Intermediate Ranged Nuclear Forces Treaty by Reagan and Gorbachev in 1987.
  • After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, President Bush and Gorbachev declared a U.S.

• Conclusion: Political Crises in the 70s and 80s

  • In 1985, Soviet leader Mikhel Gorbachev and President Reagan met in Geneva to reduce armaments and shrink their respective military budgets.