(34 points)
political factors: what did leaders in the soviet union, the united states, and europe do to further the fall of communism?

military factors: what effect did military policies and actions in the united states and in the soviet union have?

economic factors: what effect did the economic situation in the soviet union have?

social/cultural factors: what was the attitude of the people of the soviet bloc countries? what impact did glasnost have? what was the impact of dissidents?

Political factors

Explanation:

Nicholas II, ending centuries of Romanov rule. The Bolsheviks established a socialist state in the territory that was once the Russian Empire.

A long and bloody civil war followed. The Red Army, backed by the Bolshevik government, defeated the White Army, which represented a large group of loosely allied forces including monarchists, capitalists and supporters of other forms of socialism.

In a period known as the Red Terror, Bolshevik secret police—known as Cheka—carried out a campaign of mass executions against supporters of the czarist regime and against Russia’s upper classes.

for your : )

the correct answer option is: weapons.

explanation:

tensions rose as the two opposing superpowers competed for 'weapons'.

referring to the cold war (1945-1991), the two superpowers, usa and ussr, experienced a phase of struggle and conflict with each other. these two superpowers considered each other as a threat to their survival and thus opted for policies to strengthen their positions.

the two superpowers never went to war with each other directly but competed for weapons to preserve their positions.