Collapse of Communism

Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR because the Soviet-bloc nations of Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary. The leader, Gorbachev was forced to resign as president. The Berlin wall collapsed because first they made a private road for people to pass through the wall between the two sections of Gremany, then they started making more sections so more people could pass between the two seciotns of Germany, then people came to the wall with sledge hammers and attacked the wall. The Soviet Union got broken up into 15 different republics. These republics are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Lativa, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. They formed republics when the people of these areas revolted. The collapse of the Soviet Union chenged the world by having less of a need for concern about nuclear annhilation.