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THE END OF COLD WAR Gorbachev (Perestroika) The Berlin Wall

THE END OF COLD WAR Gorbachev (Perestroika) The Berlin Wall. Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev ? T he last General Secretary of the Soviet Union Massive economic, social, and political changes End to the Cold War. . 1985  power in the Soviet Union  Unexpected revolution glasnost + perestroika

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THE END OF COLD WAR Gorbachev (Perestroika) The Berlin Wall

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  1. THE END OF COLD WARGorbachev(Perestroika)The Berlin Wall

  2. Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev?The last General Secretary of the Soviet UnionMassive economic, social, and political changes End to the Cold War.

  3. 1985 power in the Soviet Union Unexpected revolution glasnost+ perestroika  USSR Glasnost : greater willingness  western ideas and goods into the USSR. Perestroika : initiative limited market incentives to Soviet citizens. -dissolution of communist power in Eastern Europe + -collapse of the Soviet Union.

  4. Soviet Bloc in Poland  June 1989 -noncommunist government Expecting Soviet tanks to roll into Poland, to prevent them from taking the power

  5. The berlin wall Tearing down the Berlin Wall with pickaxes Eastern European communist dictatorships fell one by one. November 9, 1989  visits in West Germany and West Berlin will be permitted. People begin tearing down the wall which is opened. Gorbachev  pivotal role in the fall of the Berlin Wall

  6. Demands for freedom-Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania(…) declared independence-Intended to maintain the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union1991 giving greater autonomy to the Soviet republics,

  7. COUP Gorbachev under house arrest.Boris Yeltsin ( leader of the Russian Soviet Republic)demanded the arrest of the hardliners. The army and the public sided with Yeltsin, and the coup failed. Gorbachev was freed, he was left with little legitimacy.

  8. December 1991Ukraine, Byelorussia, Russia declared independence Soviet Union dissovledGorbachev was a president without a country.Americans were pleasantly shockedRepublicans claim credit for winning the Cold War.Reagan-Bush years economic collapse of the Soviets

  9. Others pointed out that no one really won the Cold War.USA trillions of dollars arming themselves thousands of American lives lost in Korea and Vietnam

  10. Since 1945Americans were born into a Cold War culture(McCarthyism witch-hunts, backyard bomb shelters, a space race, a missile crisis, détente, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Star Wars defense proposal)

  11. THE WORLD REMAINED UNSAFEAmericanshoping new world order of the 1990s would be marked with the security and prosperity to which they had become accustomed.

  12. What marked the end of the cold war?-The destruction of the berlin wall-The liquidation of the Soviet Union

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