Why is the collapse of the soviet union historically significant to the cold war and overall human history?

 The Americans and British feared the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide. ... In response to NATO, the Soviet Union in 1955 consolidated power among Eastern bloc countries under a rival alliance called the Warsaw Pact, setting off the Cold War.

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byzantine icon- served as religious symbols in christian churches and were valued and respected for their beauty

illuminated manuscript-preserved classical greek and roman knowledge and were the first bound books