The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War affected the United States by decreasing fear of nuclear war, creating a relationship between Russia and the United States and opening the US to once off-limits. When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the position of power in the Soviet Union in 1985,it was not believed that a revolution would happen under his new reign. At a conference between United States president Ronald Reagan on December 1987 an intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.Gorbachev was known for his reforms such as Glasnost, was an ideal that soviets be more open to western ideas and import goods. As Well as the perestroika, which allowed a limited market as an incentive. Gorbachev hoped these changes would be enough to spark
