The effect of the Soviet economy on the end of the Cold War was that A. High levels of unemployment and financial crises forced the Soviet government to decrease spending..
<h3>Why did the Soviet economy fail?</h3><h3 />
The Soviet economy experienced heavy financial crisis in the late 1980s as a result of decades of overspending on weapons to match the U.S.
As a result, the economy suffered a setback and they had to stop producing so many weapons which led to the U.S. winning the Cold War.
I believe the south suffered more because of the destruction left by the Union army, especially during Shermans march to the see where he burnt cities to the ground, like Atlanta, Georgia.
