10th Euro Studies 6.1.15

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10th Euro Studies 6.1.15

• Turn in
• C/R/A 30.5 Checkpoint questions
• Define Glasnost Perestroika
• Take out
• Planner
• Unit exam Friday June 5th
• Notes
• Note-taking devices
• Todays Learning Objectives
• I can understand how the end of WWII contributed
  to an increased sense of tension between Allied
  nations.

• Todays Agenda
• The 80s
• Star Wars
• Gorbachev
• Glastnost Perestroika
• The Berlin Wall Falls
• Reunification of Germany
• HW
• Online today

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January 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes US President
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1982 Reagan addresses the British Parliament
predicts the fall of Marxism-Leninism
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Reagans Star Wars plan
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Was it really possible???
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1983Korean Airlines Flight 007
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Was it really possible???
Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov hero of Sept. 26, 1983
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1983 - Star Wars

• March 23, Reagan outlined his Strategic Defense
  Initiative, or "Star Wars," a space-based
  defensive shield that would use lasers and other
  advanced technology to destroy attacking missiles
  far above the Earth's surface.
• Soviets accuse the U.S of violating the 1972
  Antiballistic Missile Treaty. (Coming out of
  SALTStrategic Arms Limitation Talks)
• Soviets forced to spend heavily to match the
  program causing near economic collapse.

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1985 - Gorbachev comes to power

• On March 11, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in
  the Soviet Union.
• Gorbachev ushered in an era of reform.
• perestroika
• Economic reform- restructuring
• glasnost
• means openness, allowed greater free expression
  and criticism of Soviet policies
• Younger than most of his predecessorsdifferent
  generation, different world view

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1987

• June 12, 1987
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vYtYdjbpBk6A
• On December 8, 1987, Reagan and Gorbachev signed
  the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
• It mandated the removal of more than 2,600
  medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe,
  eliminated the entire class of Soviet SS-20 and
  U.S. Cruise and Pershing II missiles.

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1989 - Berlin Wall falls

• Gorbachev renounced the Brezhnev Doctrine, which
  pledged to use Soviet force to protect its
  interests in Eastern Europe.
• On September 10, Hungary opened its border with
  Austria, allowing East Germans to flee to the
  West.
• After massive public demonstrations in East
  Germany and Eastern Europe, the Berlin Wall fell
  on November 9.

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Fall of Berlin Wall
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1990 German unification

• At a September 12 meeting in Moscow, the United
  States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and
  the two Germanys agreed to end Allied occupation
  rights in Germany.
• On October 3, East and West Germany united as the
  Federal Republic of Germany.

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1991 Fall of the Soviet Union

• Christmas Day the Soviet flag flies for the final
  time over the Kremlin
• Commonwealth of Independent States
• 14 of 15 republics declared their breaking away
  (only Georgia remained)
• Gorbachev resigned 12/25/1991
• This marks the end of this long, tense, Cold
  War