Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist policies in the Soviet Union fuelled opposition movements to the Communist regimes in the Soviet bloc countries. The structures of the Eastern bloc disintegrated with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon. The Soviet Union broke up into independent republics.
She did it for standing up for what she belived in
After his victory of the union in Virginia, he decided to take the fight to Maryland because it was a slave holding state.
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