Movements to end the COLD WAR!

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Movements to end the COLD WAR!
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Negotiations to limit nuclear weapons during the
1980s
SALT Ithe first series of Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks, extended from November 1969 to
May 1972. First agreements to place limits and
restraints on some of their central and most
important weapons. This was ineffective.
SALT II negotiations began in November 1972. The
primary goal of SALT II was to replace the
Interim Agreement with a long-term comprehensive
Treaty providing broad limits on strategic
offensive weapons systems. The principal U.S.
objectives as the SALT II negotiations began were
to provide for equal numbers of strategic nuclear
delivery vehicles for the sides, to begin the
process of reduction of these delivery vehicles,
and to impose restraints on qualitative
developments which could threaten future stability
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START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty START II,
when implemented by Bush and Yeltsin, will
eliminate heavy intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBMS) and all other multiple-warhead
(MIRVed) ICBMS. It will also reduce the total
number of strategic nuclear weapons deployed by
both countries, by two-thirds below pre-START
levels. Current status of START it has been
extended.
Reykjavik Summit Meeting between Reagan and
Gorbachev on October 11-12, 1986. This was a
near successful attempt of leaders of nuclear
powers to agree on complete elimination of
nuclear weapons. It was a breakthrough meeting
that showed nuclear disarmament is within reach
as long as political leaders have courage to make
such a decision and break through bureaucratic
politics. It addressed previous treaties like
START.
All show the cooperative efforts among nations.
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The Wall Falls, 1989
Cold War Ends!
Eventually East and West Germany are reunited in
1990.
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• The USSR is failing
• Problems
• Communist leaders ruled with absolute power
• The government took control and workers did not
  become more prosperous only treated cruelly.
• Economy worsened
• Workers were unmotivated
• Not enough products were being made
• Not enough food was being grown
• For these reasons Communism did not spread as
  imagined.

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• Mikhail Gorbachev tried to make changes
  glastnost and perestroika. This failed.

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The USSR Dissolves

• In 1991 the USSR dissolved when Gorbachev
  resigned, and when that union ended, Russia
  itself and its former republics all became
  separate countries. Russia becomes a federation
  led by a President.
• Boris Yeltson became the first Russian president
  serving from 1991-99

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https//www.youtube.com/watch?v0g6arFbKZ60
Now what?
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The Third World

• The term Third World arose during the Cold War to
  define countries that remained non-aligned with
  either NATO (First World), or the Communist Bloc
  (Second World).
• Broadly categorized the nations of the Earth into
  three groups based on social, political, and
  economic divisions
• Due to many of the "Third World countries"
  being extremely poor, it became a stereotype such
  that people commonly refer to poor countries as
  "third world countries"

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Members Nations of NATO as of 2013

• ALBANIA (2009)
• BELGIUM (1949)
• BULGARIA (2004)
• CANADA (1949)
• CROATIA (2009)
• CZECH REPUBLIC (1999)
• DENMARK (1949)
• ESTONIA (2004)
• FRANCE (1949)
• GERMANY (1955)
• GREECE (1952)
• HUNGARY (1999)
• ICELAND (1949)
• ITALY (1949)

• LATVIA (2004)
• LITHUANIA (2004)
• LUXEMBOURG (1949)
• NETHERLANDS (1949)
• NORWAY (1949)
• POLAND (1999)
• PORTUGAL (1949)
• ROMANIA (2004)
• SLOVAKIA (2004)
• SLOVENIA (2004)
• SPAIN (1982)
• TURKEY (1952)
• THE UNITED KINGDOM (1949)
• THE UNITED STATES (1949)