1.
that it stayed a cold war
didn't turn into a world war
diplomacy worked
like the Cuban missile crisis
2.
over spending on the military collapsed the soviet economy
3.
cold war not leading to a hot war led to positive advances in other things it became a matter of COMPETITION
like the space race (NASA)
inventions like the internet
chess matches (example bobby fischer)
4.
showed capitalism & democracy are better than communism because of
freedom
political, economic and cultural freedom
political : democracy
economic : captialism : to be able to do business without governmental interference
culture: freedom of speech, assembly, religion (where all religions are accepted rather than none under communism)
