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Cold War Thaws

Cold War Thaws. Nixon (early 1970s). Detente: Easing/Thawing of Cold War Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) Trade agreements/cultural exchange Watergate. Why does the USSR Collapse?. Invasion of Afghanistan weakens USSR Gorbachev’s reforms Glasnost (openness)

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Cold War Thaws

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  1. Cold War Thaws

  2. Nixon (early 1970s) • Detente: Easing/Thawing of Cold War • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) • Trade agreements/cultural exchange • Watergate

  3. Why does the USSR Collapse? • Invasion of Afghanistan weakens USSR • Gorbachev’s reforms • Glasnost (openness) • Perestroika: restructuring of Soviet economy • Nuclear Treaty • Communist governments fell in the satellite states (Poland, Hungary, Romainia, Czech, E. Germany)

  4. Collapsein East Germany • Berlin Wall (1961) • Wall was a symbol of communist oppression • Fall of the Wall symbolized failure of communism and the end of the Cold War • E. German Communist party dissolved within weeks • 1990: Germany reunited

  5. The fall of the USSR

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