Get out your charts comparing the experience of an Afghani Peasant and a Russian Soldier during the Invasion of Afghanistan. Share some of the things you found were the same and the things that were different with your partner. Did you find the same things? If your partner found something really good, please add it to your own chart. Please do not Talk at this timeOct 29/30 HW: Afghan Compare/Contrast Paragraph essay Due Monday

Now look at your charts again Do these similarities and differences fall into any Categories? Name that category and write it at the bottom of your page. Get a highlighter and highlight information that is all under the same category. Highlight the category name the same color. How many different categories can you find? (you only need one)

Compare and Contrast Mini Essay Pg 47A

We will now look at an example Paragraph Look on the back of your assignment. Fold under the bottom edge. See if you can fill in the blanks with your knowledge from the Afghan Peasant/Russian Soldier Handout. Some of the missing words are content and some are Language composition words that indicate compare and contrast or transitions. Remember: Look for information and cues that show how these two groups had a similar experience and how their experience was different.

Need help? Now look at the word bank and see if you can figure out what goes where….

Please get out your Cold War Notes and get a handout from the front of the room, Soviet Reforms- Pg. 48A/B

By the 1970’s and 80’s … 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.

Détente: An easing of cold war tensions in the 1970’s 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 Stalin’s programs. Add this to your Lecture Notes

Détente Ends With Reagan He poured money into defense spending to build new military weapons and attack vehicles. The Russian economy can’t 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. President Reagan was a fierce anti communist. Reagan’s Ray Gun

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): Star Wars "The weapons required included space- and ground-based nuclear X-ray lasers, subatomic particle beams, and computer-guided projectiles fired by electromagnetic rail guns—all under the central control of a supercomputer system.” By using these systems, the United States planned to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles while they still flew high above the Earth, minimizing their effects. At the end of the Strategic Defense Initiative, thirty billion dollars had been invested in the program and no laser and mirror system was ever used, not on land, not in space.

Mikail Gorbachev- Russia’s 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!

The Fall of Communist Russia Soviet Reforms Handout- Pg. 48A/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. Directions: Close Reading Practice. First Use three different colors to highlight Social, Political and Economic information in this reading. As you read, identify each category and highlight the info in the appropriate color. Then, Read pgs and add NEW information to the space on the left. Next, answer the question at the bottom of the back page. Finally, go back over all these notes and put a star next to the most important information.

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 Add Perestroika, Glasnost and Demokratizatsia and their definitions to your Cold War Notes.