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The Cold War

The Cold War. Collapse. I can describe the factors that led to the end of the Cold War. Objectives. Soviet Decay. Cold War was expensive Ronald Reagan ended détente and boosted US military spending Soviet economy stalled Communism had failed No more idealism. Afghanistan.

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The Cold War

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  1. The Cold War Collapse

  2. I can describe the factors that led to the end of the Cold War. Objectives

  3. Soviet Decay • Cold War was expensive • Ronald Reagan ended détente and boosted US military spending • Soviet economy stalled • Communism had failed • No more idealism

  4. Afghanistan • 1979: Red Army invaded • To protect socialist gov’t • Their “Vietnam” conflict • Mujahedeen resistance • Regular army unable to defeat guerilla tactics • With a little help from the CIA

  5. New Leadership • 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev • Glasnost: openness; free speech and free elections • Empowers angry reformers • Perestroika: economic reform and restructuring • Failed due to corruption

  6. 1989 • E. European communist regimes start to reform • Poland and Hungary • Berlin Wall comes down • Gorbachev decides not to intervene • All communist regimes fall in E. Europe

  7. Eastern Bloc Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 15 Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan 6Satellite Countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania,East Germany, Czechoslovakia

  8. The Coup That Failed • 1991: Hardliners arrest Gorby, take over gov’t • Failed to keep support of the military • 15 Soviet republics separate from Russia • Boris Yeltsin establishes a democratic gov’t

  9. What actually brought the Cold War to an end? So What?

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