The poor economic conditions in East Germany forced the East German government to allow its citizens to cross the Berlin Wall and visit West Germany in 1989. The West Germans welcomed their estranged countrymen, and the citizens of both countries literally tore down the Berlin wall paving the way for the reunification of Germany in 1990. By 1990, Cold war rivalry with the US had sapped the Soviet Union of its economic strength, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika unleashed nationalist sentiments, and the constituent countries of the Soviet Union declared independence, causing the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 and with it the end of the Warsaw Pact.
Briefly explain the reunification of Germany and the breakup of the Warsaw Pact.
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