The cold war
United States and Russian Relations have always been up and down. For fifty years the United States was locked in a cold war struggle with Communist nation of the Soviet Union. The American people feared Communism. The U.S. government responded by spending trillions of dollars on weapons specifically for fighting a war with the Soviet Union, but of course this never happened. There where many times that tensions rose and the two nations hit the brink of war, but political solutions where always chosen over war. The U.S. was put into trillions of dollars worth of debt due to Cold War arms race build up. The Soviet Union crumbled in the early 90's into the Russia of today. The eastern European nations it controlled took their independence, and Russia converted to a democratic, capitalist nation. In the 1980's Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist party. One of his first acts was to develop friendly negotiations with Washington to end the tensions. He started Glasnost and Perestraika, which means openness and reconstruction. Ronald Reagan, US President from 1981-1989, had an intense distrust of the Soviet Union. He increased military spending to build up and train all branches of the military. In 1
In 1992 the United States saw the great end to the cold war when the mayor of Moscow Boris Yeltsin was elected president of free democratic Russia. This was because he stood with the anticommunist protestors in Moscow as the military tanks rolled in, and was seen as a hero. He took over when Gorbachev was forced to resign in late December 1991. Gorbachev was trying to do it slowly as to not shock the country's economy and government, but the people wanted it now. Everyone in the US now thought we could reduce our military spending, which will lower our taxes, use the money for more important things, such as paying debts, helping the poor, and new government programs. People in the United States felt that we had won, and we didn't have to worry about nuclear war any more. But we are not completely safe; problems in the Russian economy may cause it to return to Communism. Although the Cold War is over now, it could return at any possible time in the future. When the Soviet Union broke up in the early 90's people in the US felt that there was nothing to fear anymore from Russia. Current relations between the United States and Russia have been better than the past 50 years, but still strained. Russia no longer wants to borrow money from the US because of political differences, so it has been asking other countries. If Russia returns to its former communist government, relations between them and the US may revert back to what they where during the cold war. Although if Russia is moving to bringing back some communist ideas to help stabilize their economy and government, and relieving so
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