The End of Cold War

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The End of Cold War
Berlin Wall-Long standing symbol of Cold War 1961
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USSR Leaders to be Aware of

• Stalin- Command Economy
• Government controls all economic decisions
• Khrushchev- De-Stalinization
• Rid USSR of Stalinist influence
• Loosened drastic Stalin-era economic and
  political restrictions

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Revolts in Eastern Europe (1950s and 1960s)

• Soviets used force to crush public protests
• No outside assistance
• East Germany
• Poland
• Hungary
• Czechoslovakia

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Glasnost and Perestroika

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Movement towards progress, reform, openness in
  USSR under Gorbachev 1980s
• Perestroika-Economic restructuring
• Glasnost-Openness
• Leads to..

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How did Eastern Europeans react to Gorbachevs
reforms?
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1 Polish demonstrators march in support of the
democratic Solidarity movement.
2 The struggle for democracy turns violent in
Romania, where tanks operated by pro-democracy
troops fire on government supporters.
3 Thousands of Czechoslovakians protest against
the nations Communist regime.
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Revolutions 1989

• Poland-Solidarity
• Czechoslovakia-Velvet Revolution
• Romania-Violent
• Hungary-opened border with Austria
• East Germany

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Fall of Berlin Wall

• Fall Nov. 9th 1989
• Strongest symbol of Cold War and Soviet
  Repressiongone
• Paved way for Reunification of Germany 1990

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• Reagan
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• Newscast
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vsnsdDb7KDkg

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USSR

• 15 separate republics-All want independence
• Boris Yelstin-Republic of Russia
• Gorbachevs power-largely gone

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Fall of USSR December 25 1991

• Ethnic unrest
• Need for new governments

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Yugoslavia

• Nationalism
• Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence
  in 1992
• Bosnia Serbs used ethnic cleansing against
  Bosnian Muslims
• Serbian province of Kosovo-Serbs and ethnic
  Albanians fought over control

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European Union (1992)

• Economic and political confederation
• 28 Countries
• Must have a stable democratic government
• Competitive market
• Economy