Please get out your:

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Please do not talk at this time Oct 22
HW No HW!

• Please get out your
• Cold War paragraph
• Your Rubric
• Your soldier/peasant comparison chart.
• Staple these together and turn them in to the
  Turn in Box.
• Check for your Name!
• You will also need to get your map out.

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The Berlin Wall Goes Up (1961)?
Russians seek to stop the emigration of citizens
to the West through West Berlins Airports
They build a wall around West Berlin and kill
anyone who tries to cross.
CheckpointCharlie
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The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of
August 13, 1961. It was a weekend and most
Berliners slept while the East German government
begun to close the border.
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When the wall goes up in the middle of the night,
people get trapped on one side or the other, away
from friends and family. For the next three
decades, people try to escape. Its easy at the
beginning, but later requires more and more
patience, time, and genius.
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First Victim

• August 17, 1962
• Peter Fechter, 18, a bricklayer from East Berlin,
  is shot and left to bleed to death in full view
  of western media. Bystanders in the West tried to
  rescue him, but were prevented from it at
  gunpoint.

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Over the course of the Walls existence, 133
people were confirmed killed trying to cross into
West Berlin according to official sources, while
a victims group puts the number at over 200
dead.
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Ich bin ein Berliner! (1963)?
President Kennedy tells Berliners that the West
is with them! (Or that he is a Jelly Donut. Kind
of both)?
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Standoff at the Wall

• It began on October 22, 1961 as a dispute over
  whether East German guards were authorized to
  examine the travel documents of a U.S. diplomat
  passing through to East Berlin.
• By October 27, 10 Soviet and an equal number of
  American tanks stood 100 meters apart on either
  side of the checkpoint.
• The next day the East Germans, backed by the
  Soviets, backed down.

What Cold War concept is this an example of?
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June 12, 1987 President Ronald Reagan visits
Berlin and calls on Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 
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August 23, 1989, Communist Hungary removes its
border restrictions with Austria.
September 10, 1989 The Hungarian government
opens border for East German refugees.  More than
13,000 East Germans escape into Austria.
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November 4, 1989       An estimated one million
people attend a pro-democracy demonstration in
East Berlin's main square. Within days, the East
German Government resigns. November 9, 1989
      The East German government announces that
visits in West Germany and West Berlin will be
permitted. Thousands of East Berliners pass into
West Berlin as border guards stand by. People
begin tearing down the wall which is opened. June
22, 1990 Checkpoint Charlie was removed on. A
copy of the American guardhouse was erected on
the original place on August 13, 2000. October
3, 1990           Germany is formally reunited.
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And the Wall came down
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Berlin Wall

• Choose a symbol to represent the Berlin Wall and
  put it on the small map of Berlin (not Germany)
  on your map.
• In your map key (on the Left), indicate that your
  symbol represents the Berlin Wall.
• On the back of this paper explain what the Berlin
  Wall was.
• Put the Berlin Wall on the timeline from 1961
  1989.

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Please check your map Your Map should have

• All 6 Strategies of the Cold War
• Iron curtain
• Marshal Plan
• Molotov Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• Multinational Alliances
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Brinkmanship
• Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• Containment
• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War
• Propaganda
• Proxy Wars
• Vietnam
• Civil War in Nicaragua
• Revolution in Afghanistan
• Espionage- U-2 Spy Plane Incident
• Berlin Wall

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Cold War Video

• Add to your map as we watch this video
  interviewing people from the Cold War

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Please do not talk at this time Oct 23
HW Make sure your Map has everything it needs
and finish work from today.

• Please get out your maps

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Please check your map Your Map should have

• All 6 Strategies of the Cold War
• Iron curtain
• Marshal Plan
• Molotov Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• Multinational Alliances
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Brinkmanship
• Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• Containment
• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War
• Propaganda
• Proxy Wars
• Vietnam
• Civil War in Nicaragua
• Revolution in Afghanistan
• Espionage- U-2 Spy Plane Incident
• Berlin Wall
• Perestroika
• Glasnost
• Demokratizatsia
• Détente

We will add these today!
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Premier Nikita Khrushchev
About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend
on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist.If you
don't like us, don't accept our invitations,
and don'tinvite us to come to see you. Whether
you like it our not, history is on our side. We
will bury you. -- 1956
De-Stalinization Program
What does this quote reveal about relations
between the USA and the USSR in the 1950s? How
does it reflect the action in Berlin and Korea?
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By the 1970s and 80s The Superpowers are
Tired of War.

• After fighting in Afghanistan and Vietnam, both
  the US and the USSR were tired of war, both were
  facing huge debt from spending money on the cold
  war and both were afraid an accident might happen
  with nuclear weapons.
• They began the policy of Détente An easing of
  cold war tensions, led by US president Nixon.

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Détente An easing of cold war tensions in the
1970s

• Begun by President Nixon
• Follows Khrushchev's De-Stalinization program
  where he tried to erase Stalin from Russian
  history and got rid of most of Stalins programs.

Add this to your Cold War map
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Détente Ends With Reagan
Reagans Ray Gun

• President Reagan was a fierce anti communist.

• He poured money into defense spending to build
  new military weapons and attack vehicles.
• The Russian economy cant keep up, and the USSR
  spends more and more of the money meant for its
  people on its own military.
• The USSR runs out of money first.

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Mikail Gorbachev- Russias new President

• Gorbachev sees how much trouble the USSR is in
  and begins the changes that will end both the
  Cold War and the Soviet Union.

Remember this famous Birthmark!
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The Fall of Communist Russia Soviet Reforms
Handout- Pg. 49A/B

• Use the handout to focus in on Key events, people
  and ideas from the end of the Communist Russia.
  These things appear on the test.
• Read the left hand column of the handout and
  highlight or underline key words.
• In the right hand column, record NEW information
  about Gorbachev and his policies from pgs.
  612-616 in your text book.

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Please do not talk at this time Oct 24/25
HW Test on Tueday! Bring your Cold War Map to
use and turn in!

• To be Collected Tuesday
• Pg. 49 Soviet Reforms and 50 (Break up of the
  Soviet Union) in your notebook.
• Cold War Map- Cold War Test- MC and Short Answer
• NOTE You May use your Cold War Map on your Test.

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Please trade your Soviet Reforms Handout with a
partner

• Please sign your name after the words, Corrected
  By.
• Please make corrections to this paper

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Soviet Reforms Corrections
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Video on the fall of communism

• Add Perestroika, Glasnost and Demokratizatsia and
  their definitions to your map.

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Add Perestroika, Glasnost and Demokratizatsia and
their definitions to your map.

• Perestroika- a restructuring of the Soviet
  economy to permit more local decision making and
  individual control of business.
• Glasnost- Soviet policy of openness to the free
  flow of ideas and information
• Demokratizatsia- Democratization or the process
  used to make a government more democratic

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Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite
Countries Take up the whole page. Please set
up your paper like this
Romania Comparison Poland
What was life like before independence?
How was independence achieved?
What did the newly independent government look like?
Use the handouts and your book starting on pg.
618 to fill out this chart. Then find things
both countries had in common and put those in the
middle column
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Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite
Countries Take up the whole page. Please set
up your paper like this
Romania Comparison Poland
What was life like before independence?
How was independence achieved?
What did the newly independent government look like?
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Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite
Countries Take up the whole page. Please set
up your paper like this
Romania Comparison Poland
What was life like before independence?
How was independence achieved?
What did the newly independent government look like?
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With a partner

• Get a placard on how Romania and Poland gained
  their independence from Russia with the fall of
  the Soviet Union.
• Read about each country and fill in the boxes on
  your chart. (left and right boxes)
• Finally, compare the two countries. What does
  their experience have in common? (middle box)
• Then, Read pgs. 618-619 and 621-622 and add to
  your Romania/Poland Chart.

Everyone needs their own paper but you and your
partner can have the same answers!
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Please do not talk at this time Oct 26
HW Test on Tuesday! Bring your Cold War Map to
use and turn in! Butter Battle Story End due
Monday.

• To be Collected Tuesday
• Pg. 49 Soviet Reforms and 50 (Break up of the
  Soviet Union) in your notebook.
• Pg. 51 Cold War Political Cartoon Analysis
• Cold War Map- Cold War Test- MC and Short Answer
• NOTE You May use your Cold War Map on your Test.

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Story Time The Butter Battle Book- Pg. 52A

• Dr. Seuss wrote this book to teach children about
  the cold war. However, it was published before
  the Cold War ended.
• You will write a new ending for this book that
  covers the actual end of the Cold War.
• First, I will read you the story.
• As I read, record what each symbol and metaphor
  in the book stands for in the real life Cold War
  into the chart on your paper.

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Now finish the story!

• Use the directions and the rubric on your paper
  to finish the story in a way that reflects what
  really happened when the Cold War ended.

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Please do not talk at this time Oct 29
HW Test Tomorrow! Map and pgs. 49-51 to be
collected also
Share your Butter Battle Book End with your
partner. Share out with all of us!
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Pg. 51A Cold War Cartoon Analysis

• Use the BASIC method to analyze Three of the Five
  political cartoons of the Cold War era.
• Do this on a piece of binder paper.

• Background
• Argument
• Symbolism
• Irony
• Caricature

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Please do not Talk at this time Oct 30
HW No HW-

• Please get out Pg. 49A Soviet Reforms, Pg. 50A
  The Breakup of Soviet Satellite Countries, Pg.
  51A Cold War Cartoon Analysis.
• Staple them together
• Check for your Name!
• Turn them in to the Turn In Box.
• You will also need to get your map out.

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Cold War Test
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Cold War Test

• When you turn in your test
• Map to the turn in box
• Scantron to the Scantron pile on the table
• Short answer to the front table
• Test to the test pile
• And pick up pg. 51A/B for HW

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• Pg 49A Soviet Reforms
• Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite
  Countries
• Pg. 51A Cold War Cartoon Analysis
• Pg. 52A Butter Battle Book End