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The End of the Cold War. And the last power-point notes you have to take for the year!!. Events not just in Vietnam. Prague Spring Leonid Brezhnev became leader of the Soviet Union after Khrushchev lost power. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The End of the Cold War
And the last power-point notes you have to take for the year!!
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Events not just in Vietnam
Prague Spring Leonid Brezhnev became leader of the Soviet
Union after Khrushchev lost power. In 1968, the reforms of Alexander Dubcek
threatened the single party leadership in Czechoslovakia.
The Soviet Union sent 250,000 troops to suppress the revolution.
The Brezhnev Doctrine is introduced which gave the Soviet Union the ability to intervene and protect socialism against internal or external forces.
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Prague Spring in action
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M.A.D
Throughout the 1960’s and 70’s the arms race began and continued through the 1980’s. Weapons of every type were developed.
By 1986, there were an estimated 50,000 nuclear warheads.
Also throughout the 60’s and 70’s, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine of retaliation.
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Nixon in China
When Nixon took office in 1969, the growing importance of China had to be recognized.
In 1971, the U.S. withdrew its objections for China’s entry into the UN
It was no longer a bi-polar world and the emerging powers (such as China) had to be recognized.
In 1972, Nixon visited Mao in Beijing and initiated diplomatic and economic relations with China.
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Pressure for detente
U.S. diplomatic relations with China put more pressure on the Soviet Union for détente.
SALT I-Strategic Arms Limitation Signed in 1972 by both the U.S. and the
Soviet Union and reaffirmed the goal of “peaceful coexistence”.
The Helsinki Accords was not a formal treaty, but was the high point of détente in 1975.
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Can détente continue??
In 1974, Nixon resigns and Gerald Ford takes office.
In 1977, Jimmy Carter takes office.SALT II is signed 1979.Carter focuses on human rights, but
meanwhile both the U.S. and the Soviet Union reinforced their nuclear and military strength.
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Afghanistan-The Soviet Union’s VietnamBeginning in 1979, the Soviet Union
invades Afghanistan, based on the request of the Afghan government.
Lasted until 1989, involving 100,000 Soviet troops.
Carter proclaimed that this was “the most serious threat to world peace since 1945” and a “stepping stone in their possible control over much of the world’s oil supplies”.
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Mujahideen (Islamic guerrillas) stand on top of a Soviet helicopter they brought down. The mujahideen fought against the Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan). They used guerrilla-war tactics to ambush Soviet troops.
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Reagan is Elected
In January 1981, Ronald Reagan took office.
Reagan’s position was to take a “hard line” on the Cold War.
He openly called the Soviet Union:– “the focus of evil in the modern world”– “an evil empire with dark purposes”.
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Nuclear Arms Control
Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union continue to build arms:– Strategic long-range missiles– Continental ballistic missiles– Launched from land, sea or air– Guided missiles– Continuous testing of nuclear weapons
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Nuclear Powers and Capacity
#1 The United States#2 The United Kingdom#3 The Soviet Union#4 France#5 China#6 IndiaToday: Israel, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq,
Libya and North Korea
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Star Wars (not the movie)
On March 23 1983, Reagan announces his plan for the interception of long-range missiles from both the ground and space.
Reagan hoped this would end the threat of nuclear attack
Called “Star Wars” by the press, Strategic Defense Initiative by Reagan.
Over 10 years, $50 Billion was spent on this initiative.
In 1993, Clinton renamed “Star Wars”, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO)
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''What if free people could live secure in the knowledge ... that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil...?”
-Ronald ReaganMarch 1983
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The Soviet Union--1985
Mikhail Gorbachev rises to power in the Soviet Union
Perestroika: drastic modification of the centrally planned command economy inherited by Stalin
Glasnost: openness, which would be linked to economic reform.
Changes were brought about that had not been seen since the revolution.
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Gorbachev and Reagan
Gorbachev becomes very popular in the West
In 1981, Reagan administration focuses on arms limitations, now called START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks)
Gorbachev sees détente as a real way to achieve peace
The leaders meet multiple times to attempt to deduce long-range nuclear weapons.
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“Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!”
-Ronald Reagan, June 12, 1987
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The Collapse of Communism Some events prior to the collapse
Détente and Gorbachev’s “open” policies. Centrally planned economies had stagnated
since the 1970’s. Lech Walesa rose to power in Poland calling
for free elections. In 1989, Hungary opens it’s boarders to
Germans. Revolutions continue to spread to
Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria.
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The Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989--Germans on both sides of the wall began to tear it down.
On October 3, 1990--Germany officially reunited.
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin elected to the legislature in
1989 was opposed to Gorbachev. Gorbachev was intent on keeping the “union”
in tact, Yeltsin demanded independence for the Baltic states.
On December 22nd, 1991 the republics of the Soviet Union agreed to its dissolution.
Gorbachev resigns and Yeltsin becomes the first popularly elected president.
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Questions to consider:
Why did the Soviet Union collapse?Was the Soviet system always
destined to fail?If communism failed, could capitalism
also fail?What becomes of all the weaponry
produced during the Cold War?In the end-who won the Cold War?