The Collapse of Communism

During the Cold War the USSR and the U.S. were the world's leading superpowers. After WW2 these two world powers were competing in a race. Both of them being world powers and armed with atomic weapons they did not get in to any actual fighting. The mere cost of keeping up with each other was high for both countries. For the USSR it was to much. Their economy soon collapsed at the high price of competing with the U.S. With the collapse of the USSR the communist countries that they supported soon also collapsed due to the fact that their main source of money came from Soviet Russia. The collapse of the USSR destroyed many economies around the world. The collapse of the USSR gave a response out to the world. The fall of the Berlin Wall raised the iron curtain that had fallen on Europe ever since WW2. Cuba which was one of Russia's allies due to it's location near Florida. The collapse made the U.S. the world's only leading superpower and reshaped Europe again.