History A-Level
Malta Agreement
What Malta Agreement means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Malta Agreement
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The decisive 1989 summit agreement which effectively declared an end to the Cold War.
Topics that use Malta Agreement
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985–2000 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Authoritarianism versus democracy
- Crisis and collapse
- demokratizatsiya
- Economic decline
- Economic transition and crisis
- glasnost
- Leadership and political miscalculation
- Nationalism and separatism
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