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The Cold War Ends
Mr. Ornstein
Willow Canyon High School
IB History of the Americas
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Ronald Reagan
US President 1981-1988
Strongly Anti-Communist, Anti-Soviet, and Anti-Nuclear Missiles
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Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of England
Strongly Anti-Soviet and Close Ally of US
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Pope John Paul II
Polish Anti-Communist Helps Lead a
Peaceful Anti-Communist Revolt in Poland
Helps Communism Fall in Eastern Europe
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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
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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
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Boris Yeltsin
First Elected President of Non-Communist Russia
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George H.W. Bush
US President as Soviet Union Breaks Up and Communism Falls in Eastern Europe
Signs START Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty
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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
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Reagan’s Views
Soviet Union and Communism are Evil
Soviet Union Must Be Defeated/End Détente
Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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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
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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
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Glasnost and Perestroika
Gorbachev’s Plans to Save Communism in the USSR
Glasnost-More FreedomsPerestroika-Some CapitalismActually Speeds Up Collapse of
Communism
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Internal Opposition
Pope and Solidarity Movement Lead Internal Opposition Movement to Communism
Poland Leads Way in Eastern Europe
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War in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Soviet’s VietnamHigh Soviet Casualties without
victoryDrains Soviet ResourcesUS sends arms to Islamic
Resistance Fighters
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Berlin Wall Collapses
1989Symbol of Cold
War EndingNations of Eastern
Europe Become Free of Soviet and Communist Control
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Communism Collapses in Eastern Europe
Communism Collapses Rapidly Throughout Soviet Block and Eastern Europe
Soviets Do Not Resist
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End of Soviet Union
By 1991 Communists Lost Power in Russia and the Soviet Union Collapsed
USSR is now Russia AgainEastern Europe Free from CommunismBoris Yeltsin is First Democratically
Elected Russian Leader
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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.
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Post-Cold War Issues
Russia’s Difficult Transition from Communism
Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia/Balkans
America’s Issues in Being Only Superpower
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Post-Cold War Issues
Communism in CubaTensions Between North and
South Korea/North Korean NukesTaiwan/China IssuesArming of Islamic Resistance in
Afghanistan
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Post-Cold War Issues
Accounting for Russian Nuclear Weapons
Ethnic Tensions in Lands Formally Controlled by Soviets
Terrorism
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India
Largest Democracy Non-Aligned or
Neutral During Cold War
Frustrates US-Democracy Neutral