What were the greatest factors in order that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union listed below? You must be able to justify the order that you have selected. *Fall of the Berlin Wall
* Gorbachev appointed as Communist Party General Secretary
*1956 Hungarian Uprising
* Prague Spring
*Detente
*Solidarity
* Velvet Revolution
*1991 coup d'etat in Moscow
*Romanian Revolution

:) during the cold war, people were afraid of communists, both outside and inside the united states. the red scare and mccarthyism that grew out of these fears were damaging to the american way of life. during the mccarthy years, many of the freedoms guaranteed in the bill of rights were limited. write a paragraph explaining what lessons can be learned from the mccarthy era about what u.s. citizens need to protect in order to preserve the democratic political system and the american way of life.