An important success of the confederation's articles was how they helped the government deal with it with the organization and sale of Western lands. Through them, there was the Terrestrial Ordinance of 1785, which was an excellent law that allowed an orderly process to deal with the lands of the West, establishing the provisions of the land that would be used during the later expansion of the country
But the two events that caused relations between the U.S and the USSR to begin to change in the early 1980's were that Leonid Brezhnev died and Ronald Reagan became president.
