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The Cold War Ends

The Cold War Ends. Mr. Ornstein Willow Canyon High School IB History of the Americas. Ronald Reagan. US President 1981-1988 Strongly Anti-Communist, Anti-Soviet, and Anti-Nuclear Missiles. Margaret Thatcher. Prime Minister of England Strongly Anti-Soviet and Close Ally of US.

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The Cold War Ends

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  1. The Cold War Ends Mr. Ornstein Willow Canyon High School IB History of the Americas

  2. Ronald Reagan • US President 1981-1988 • Strongly Anti-Communist, Anti-Soviet, and Anti-Nuclear Missiles

  3. Margaret Thatcher • Prime Minister of England • Strongly Anti-Soviet and Close Ally of US

  4. Pope John Paul II • Polish • Anti-Communist • Helps Lead a Peaceful Anti-Communist Revolt in Poland • Helps Communism Fall in Eastern Europe

  5. Lech Walesa • Polish Electrician • Leader of Union Workers Opposed to Communist/Solidarity • Solidarity Movement Helps Lead to Fall of Communism in Poland and Eastern Europe

  6. Mikhail Gorbachev • Last Communist Ruler of Soviet Union • Tried to Save Communism by Making Reforms • Does Not Use Force As Communism Falls in Eastern Europe • Works with Reagan to eliminate Nuclear Weapons

  7. Boris Yeltsin • First Elected President of Non-Communist Russia

  8. George H.W. Bush • US President as Soviet Union Breaks Up and Communism Falls in Eastern Europe • Signs START Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty

  9. The Cold War Ends • Tough Anti-Soviet Policies of Ronald Reagan • Internal Opposition to Communism in Poland (Pope and Solidarity) • Reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union • Gorbachev Not Using Force

  10. Reagan’s Views • Soviet Union and Communism are Evil • Soviet Union Must Be Defeated/End Détente • Abolish Nuclear Weapons

  11. Ronald Reagan • Re-Starts the Arms Race and Outspends USSR • Believes if Soviet People See How People Live Under Democracy and Capitalism They Will Turn Against Communism

  12. SDI/Star Wars • Reagan’s Plan for an Anti-Nuclear Missile System • Soviets Are Afraid SDI will Allow US to win Arms Race • Goes Against Mutual Assured Destruction • Soviets Are Convinced That US Can Build

  13. Mikhail Gorbachev

  14. Glasnost and Perestroika • Gorbachev’s Plans to Save Communism in the USSR • Glasnost-More Freedoms • Perestroika-Some Capitalism • Actually Speeds Up Collapse of Communism

  15. Internal Opposition • Pope and Solidarity Movement Lead Internal Opposition Movement to Communism • Poland Leads Way in Eastern Europe

  16. War in Afghanistan

  17. Afghanistan • Soviet’s Vietnam • High Soviet Casualties without victory • Drains Soviet Resources • US sends arms to Islamic Resistance Fighters

  18. Berlin Wall Collapses • 1989 • Symbol of Cold War Ending • Nations of Eastern Europe Become Free of Soviet and Communist Control

  19. Communism Collapses in Eastern Europe • Communism Collapses Rapidly Throughout Soviet Block and Eastern Europe • Soviets Do Not Resist

  20. End of Soviet Union • By 1991 Communists Lost Power in Russia and the Soviet Union Collapsed • USSR is now Russia Again • Eastern Europe Free from Communism • Boris Yeltsin is First Democratically Elected Russian Leader

  21. START • 1991 • Treaty Between the USA and the USSR on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, It barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 warheads atop a total of 1,600 ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and bombers.

  22. Post-Cold War Issues • Russia’s Difficult Transition from Communism • Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia/Balkans • America’s Issues in Being Only Superpower

  23. Post-Cold War Issues • Communism in Cuba • Tensions Between North and South Korea/North Korean Nukes • Taiwan/China Issues • Arming of Islamic Resistance in Afghanistan

  24. Post-Cold War Issues • Accounting for Russian Nuclear Weapons • Ethnic Tensions in Lands Formally Controlled by Soviets • Terrorism

  25. India • Largest Democracy • Non-Aligned or Neutral During Cold War • Frustrates US-Democracy Neutral

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