The correct options are: "Independence for the Soviet republics and the end of the Soviet Union"
Along with the named effects we can say the following, the effects brought about by the Cold War were:
- The United States and the Soviet Union accumulated large arsenals of atomic weapons and ballistic missiles.
- The military blocks of NATO and the Warsaw Pact were formed
- It reached the destructive conflicts of Vietnam and Korea
- The Soviet Union collapsed due to its economic weakness
- The Berlin Wall was demolished and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated
- The Baltic states and some former Soviet republics achieved independence
- The United States became the only superpower in the world