Cold War End NB 154-155

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Cold War EndNB 154-155

• Source Making the History of 1989
• http//chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/23

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Essential Question

• What caused popular unrest in Eastern Europe?

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Butcher Shop in Poland, 1982
Chris Niedenthal, "The Butcher Shop, Warsaw,"
Making the History of 1989, Item 23,
http//chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/23
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Cold War End Cornell Notes

• Question
• L1 Who are the people pictured?
• L2 What are the sources of the problem?
• L3 What does this data show about the economy?

• Notes
• I see a woman behind a counter waiting on two
  customers.
• The shelves look empty

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Butcher Shop

• In the 1980s average citizens of East European
  countries faced many challenges, including daily
  difficulties created from ongoing and severe
  shortages of consumer goods.
• This 1982 photograph, taken in a butcher shop in
  Poland's capital city of Warsaw, clearly conveys
  the problem of acquiring basic necessities, such
  as meat.

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Shopping queue in Wroclaw

• Chris Niedenthal, "Shopping queue in Wroclaw,"
  Making the History of 1989, Item 24,
  http//chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/24

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Shopping queue in Wroclaw

• In this 1982 photograph, a large crowd stands in
  front of a department store (Dom Mody) in the
  city of Wroclaw in Western Poland. Such lines
  were a daily sight in Soviet Bloc countries,
  where the state was unable to meet its citizens'
  everyday needs. Declining living standards and
  daily hardships throughout Eastern Europe in the
  1980s contributed to the building resentment
  toward State Socialism, eventually leading to the
  collapse of the system.

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One of the most important indicators of a
societies transition to what economists often
call modern industrial society is a decline in
infant mortality rates. This rate reflects the
number of children who die before age one out of
each 1,000 live births. Professor T Mills Kelly,
"Infant Mortality Eastern Europe 1970-1989,"
Making the History of 1989, Item 668,
http//chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/668
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• On the one hand the data indicate the degree to
  which the regimes of Communist Eastern Europe
  were able to make substantial progress in
  reducing infant mortality in their countries
  between 1970 and 1989.
• On the other hand the data also demonstrate that
  while in some cases the Communist regimes were
  able to reduce the rate of infant mortality more
  rapidly than was the case in the United States,
  the actual number of infant deaths per thousand
  in several of these countriesespecially Romania
  and Yugoslaviawas significantly higher than it
  was in the United States.

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Apartments

• Some 83 percent of all apartments had a bathroom
  or a shower and a lavatory in 1986 only 1 in 15
  apartments was without either a bathroom or
  without a lavatory, and only 1 in 10 apartments
  had neither.
• Source "Rudé Pravo, Housing," Making the History
  of 1989, Item 274, http//chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items
  /show/274

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Womens Attitudes Toward the Transition to
Democracy

• Before we had money but we didnt have products.
  Now we have products and we dont have money. How
  good do you think it is for a woman to go to the
  market and not be able to buy the fruit that is
  needed for her kid? You are not able to spend
  money on fruit because you need to pay rent and
  other living expenses its so expensive. The
  price of electricity, gas, rent--its like in the
  West--but the salaries are like in Romania.
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Womens Attitudes Toward the Transition to
Democracy

• Interview M. born 1955, worked as an
  electrician under communism, currently
  unemployed, married, two children, interviewed in
  Brasov, Romania, summer, 2003. Jill Massino,
  "Womens Attitudes Toward the Transition to
  Democracy," Making the History of 1989, Item
  563, http//chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/563

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Excerpt Is Poland Lost by Sabine Rosenbladt

• The river around which the port city of Gdansk
  grew is called the Vistula. On its way through
  the heart of Poland, the Vistula passes through
  many large and small cities, most of which dump
  their raw sewage directly into it. Half of the
  813 Polish communities that line the banks of the
  Vistula, including the capital city of Warsaw,
  have no sewage treatment facilities.
• Sabine Rosenblatt, "Is Poland Lost?" Making the
  History of 1989, Item 687, http//chnm.gmu.edu/19
  89/items/show/687 (accessed May 10 2015, 1033
  pm).

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Essential Question

• What caused popular unrest in Eastern Europe?
• 1 pg written response
• Due Monday

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Warm up NB 152-153

• Read pp. 537-538
• 1. Why did the command economy stagnate in the
  Soviet Union?
• 2. What cracked under the burden of military
  commitments?
• 3. Why was Afghanistan compared to the Soviet
  Vietnam?

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Warm up NB 152-153

• Read pp. 537-538
• 1. Why did the command economy stagnate?
• Collectivized agriculture was unproductive,
  central planning led to inefficiency and waste,
  workers were paid low wages
• 2. What cracked under the burden of military
  commitments? The arms race strained the economy.
• 3. Why was Afghanistan compared to the Soviet
  Vietnam? It was a long and costly war fueled by
  guerilla fighters.