The rapid succession of events restructuring, the system. Hungary Czechoslovakia . which marked the end of the Cold War is not in dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"Because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

It came into force in 1994. Daryl Kimball,Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, a private research firm, says that treaty helped end the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

The definitive history of the Cold War's end clearly has yet to be written.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

That led to the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

To put an end to Cold War thinking, we will reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy and urge others to do the same."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

But Nye tells VOA that while the power of U.S.ideas and its ability "to deter Soviet aggression" are essential to understanding the end of the Cold War, neither are root causes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

But the end of World War II signaled the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and Russia in which CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers played a central role.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

But in the end, protests and peaceful revolutions in the region brought it down, leading to the re-unification of Germany, the end of the Cold War and geopolitical shifts in Europe and beyond.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09