Please check back often as this is regularly updated. 1  Rim Exit Devices. 2  Rim Device: This type is used on single doors or pairs of doors that have a vertical mullion (either removable or fixed) in between the doors. The strike plate is surface mounted on the frame (or mullion).
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. He brought about massive economic, social, and political changes and helped bring an end to both the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms as the leader of the Soviet Union definitely contributed to the fall of that country, although the Cold War was over before that. The Cold War effectively ended after the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, Romania being the only country that overthrew its communist government violently. What effectively ended the cold war was the fall of the Soviet Union.