Deterrence and Containment
deterrence and containment
the fall of the Soviet Union or The fall of Communist governments
One of the most important strategies implemented by the United States that contributed to the fall of the former Soviet Union was President Reagan's national security directives. These three directives were called NDSSs. NSDD-323 called for United States to seek to neutralize Soviet control over Eastern and Central Europe. NSDD-66 made it policy to disrupt the Soviet economy by attacking financial credits, high technology, and natural gas. NSDD-75 stated that the United States would no longer have a policy of coexistence with the Soviet Union, but rather one to destroy it.
Domino effect
internationalism
The USA didn't want south Korea to fall under a communist war because they were afraid of the domino effect. They didn't want other countries to fall under a communist rule.
The Soviet Union was the center of communism. When it fell other communist countries either adopted democracy or free-market reforms.
the fall of the soviet union or The fall of Communist governments
Solidarity was a trade union that organised Polish workers in the 1980s and stood up to the communist government of the time. Its leader was Lech Walesa. Amongst the many other things that were going on in easter Europe's communist countries at the time, it contributed to the eventual downfall of communism in those countries. It tried for social and political reform and negotiated with the Polish government. The government did ban it and tried to stop it, but it survived and eventually Lech Walesa got into politics and he became president of Poland after the fall of communism.
The domino Effect is a phenomenon where a chain of consequences is created by a single event. As in a line of dominos, where 1 domino is struck, others fall as a consequence of the original action. As it pertains to the Vietnam war, the domino effect was the theory that the US government used to justify its intervention in Vietnam. The position of the pro-war, anti-communist advisers in the government was that if Vietnam was allowed to "fall" to communism, this would set off a 'domino effect' whereby first neighboring countries such as Laos, Cambodia and Thailand would fall into communist revolution, and by extension countries further afield would be overtaken as the global communist revolutionary movement gained momentum. According to this line of thinking, to stop communism in Vietnam was to stop the world from falling into communist control. This theory is disproved, as we know Communist North Vietnam defeated US forces, but this did not result in a domino effect of neighboring countries becoming communist.
No President is solely responsible for the fall of Communism in any country, it was the desire of the people that ended Communism rule in their country, though a few countries (North Korea, China, and Cuba most notably) still have Communist governments.
Late in 1989 Communist rule collapsed in Eastern Europe.