rocky iv: training in the soviet union
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Unionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SUzcDUERLo
![Page 2: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Soviet Union- Warsaw Pact• Eastern Europe• Cuba• China• North Korea• North Vietnam
USA- NATO• Western Europe • Middle East• Canada• South Korea• South Vietnam
![Page 3: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Division of Germany after WWII
←Berlin
![Page 4: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Nuclear Weapons• USA (1945) and USSR (1949) only countries with
atomic weapons• Both sides had Hydrogen Bombs more destructive
(1953)• Fear of Nuclear War- Duck and Cover/Fall out
shelters• Limit weapons to prevent a nuclear attack
Bert the Turtle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
Question: How did the Cold War affect everyday life?
![Page 5: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Sports Competitions
• 1980 Olympics- “Miracle on Ice” US hockey Team beats Soviets
• 1976 USA Boycotts Moscow Olympics • 1984 Soviets Boycott Olympics in USA• Boxing
1980 Miracle on Ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRALJyv86eY
Question: How did Miracle affect the Cold War and people’s attitudes towards it?
![Page 6: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Spies-Intelligence gathering
• Planes looking & testing atmosphere for evidence of weapons
• US Senator Joseph McCarthy-Red Scare
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg- Soviet Spies executed in USA (1953)
Rosenberg Trial:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B33oE73tPUo
![Page 7: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Space Race
• Education Focus: Math & Science• Sputnik-SU Satellite (1957)• NASA- National Aeronautics and Space Administration-
Eisenhower (1958)• Humans in Space-Yuri Gagarin-SU (1961)
John Glenn-USA (1962)• Apollo 11- Man on the Moon-Buzz Aldrin and Neil
Armstrong- USA (1969)
President Kennedy Speech at Rice University: 8:40http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRbkBAOGEwNeil Armstrong 40 year anniversary:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ib-U4dZRM
![Page 9: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
The Berlin Wall• A wall erected by the Soviets
completely surrounding Free West Berlin.
• WHY – to keep the people of Soviet controlled East Berlin from escaping to Free West Berlin
• Soviets built it to keep their communist workers in
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mWgqYBZos (Berlin Wall 9:20)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywY67XU56KE&feature=relmfu (Escape from Berlin 9:19)
![Page 10: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
![Page 11: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
US Foreign Policy 1945-1991
• Truman Doctrine-
• Marshall Plan-
• Containment-
![Page 12: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Early Indirect Conflicts• Berlin Airlift- 1948-Stalin cut off supply lines to Berlin, but
the allies supplied West Berliners with food and fuel for over a year
• Chinese Communist Revolution- 1949- Mao Zedong establishes a Communist Totalitarian State
• Korean War -1950-1953-Division at the 38th parallel – North Korea- Communist-
ruled by Kim Il Sung– South Korea- Capitalist-
US support
![Page 13: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Communism in the Western Hemisphere
• Cuban Revolution- Fidel Castro sets up a communist government- 1959
• Bay of Pigs Invasion- 1961-JFK’s failed attempt at sending US trained Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro
• Trade Embargo on Cuba• Cuban Missile Crisis- 1962-Soviets put
missiles in Cuba and the USA put missiles in Turkey. The JFK set up a naval blockade and Khrushchev agreed to -remove missiles.
![Page 14: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
![Page 15: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Another Proxy War
• Vietnam War- 1955-1976- The US attempts to stop the spread of Communism from the North (Ho Chi Minh) to the South (Ngo Dinh Diem). US policy Vietnamization-US pulls out Saigon falls to the North and communism
• Cambodia- 1970- US
bombed North Vietnamese
trade route in Cambodia
![Page 17: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Falling Apart – the End of the Cold War
• Protests began in many Eastern European countries
• People wanted a say in their government
• Leaders of countries tried to squash this with military power
![Page 18: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Mikhail Gorbachev
• Became leader of Soviet Union in 1986
• 1/3 of population was living in poverty
• Policies– Ease tension with US (Reagan)– Pulled out of Afghanistan– Glasnost (openness) allowed political
and intellectual debate– Perestroika (restructuring) political and economic change
• Instituted elections for Congress and President
![Page 19: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Fall of the Berlin WallNovember 9, 1989-Travel restrictions lifted and Berlin Wall is torn down
Reagan Speech-4 minhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8Berlin Wall Falls-3:20http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCPdLlUgvo&feature=relatedCrossing to Freedom-3:56http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snsdDb7KDkg&feature=fvwp&NR=1
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/09/world/europe/20091109-berlinwallthennow.html?_r=1&
![Page 20: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
It’s falling…• Glasnost and Perestroika resulted in chaos. This led to uprisings• Satellite countries began to declare independence from the USSR
• Hungary led protests but were squashed by Russian tanks and troops in the 1950s. No one wanted to fight back until…
• Czechoslovakian people had protest marches with millions of people…their government could not stop them so they asked for change and they get it! (starts here first)
• 1990 Czechoslovakia will become first country to break away from the Soviets and become a democracy
• Communism is falling apart and Russia can’t stop it!
• People are mad at Gorbachev and he resigns!
![Page 21: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
It’s falling…Poland• While Czechoslovakia was fighting for their freedom and
democracy (and they WIN it in 1991), Polish workers unite to fight for their rights
• Lech Walesa, a union leader, rises to the top as the man who will lead Poland to freedom over communism around 1988
• In 1991 Walesa unites all of Poland and communism falls in Poland
• He becomes the 1st freely elected President of Poland• Now other countries fight back and communism falls all
over Eastern Europe – the COLD WAR ENDS!!
![Page 22: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Independence MovementsCZECHOSLOVAKIA: • 1989• student protests, Peaceful division
of country
EAST GERMANY:• 1989, May 1990- free elections• Destruction of Berlin wall, protests,
free elections
HUNGARY:• Dec. 1989• Informal democratic political
groups, PROTESTS
BULGARIA:• 1989• Hunger strikes, protests, mass
exodus
POLAND:• 1989• Lech Walesa led workers on
strikes & protests. Walesa 1st democratically elected president in Eastern Europe
ROMANIA:• 1990• protests, killed leader, revolted,
army joined protesters
USSR:• 1991• Satellite nations gain
independence and free elections
END OF COLD WAR!!!!!
![Page 23: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Fall of Communism
• Boris Yeltsin-Democracy and a Market Economy based on capitalism helps Russia
• 1991 official breakup of the Soviet Union
![Page 24: Rocky IV: Training in the Soviet Union](https://reader030.vdocument.in/reader030/viewer/2022032605/56649e845503460f94b859e5/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Review Questions
Why is the Berlin Wall so important?
Which country fought for independence first?
Who is Lech Walesa? Which country is he connected with?
Why did communism fall?