Question

How did this event contribute to the end of the Cold War?

Group of answer choices

by giving the United States a strategic location to base its bombers

by helping communist countries access the goods that they needed

by allowing a freer flow of ideas across the Eastern and Western Blocs

by forcing the Soviet Union to exhaust its resources protecting its borders

Answer 1

by allowing a freer flow of ideas across the Eastern and Western Blocs

Explanation: Increased openness (e.g., glasnost, the fall of the Berlin Wall, opened borders) let information, culture and political ideas spread into communist countries, undermining authoritarian control and accelerating reforms and collapse.