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Fall of USSR and End of the Cold War SIN #55 Warm-up 1.What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine? 2.Why did the Allies decide to divide Germany into 4 zones? 3.What are the 2 alliances during the Cold War? Who is the leader of each side?

Berlin Blockade June 1948 Stalin wanted to test USA policy of containment and take control of all of Germany starting with Berlin. SU sealed all borders between east and west Germany cutting off all access to West Berlin from the outside world.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 14, 1962 U2 planes took photos revealing Soviet missiles capable of delivering nuclear bombs being installed in Cuba, within striking distance of the USA. USA had also placed missiles in Turkey aimed at the Soviet Union

Effects: Realized how close the two superpowers had come to a total nuclear annihilation

Open textbooks to page 614

De-Stalinization in USSR Stalin’s successor Nikita Khruschev gave people more individual freedoms In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev brought reforms: -glasnost: openness, ended censorship - perestroika: restructure the economy Reforms were unsuccessful leading to food shortages, high prices, lack of jobs, social unrest

End of the Cold War Dec 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed because of political and economic decline and split apart into 15 different countries The fall of the Berlin Wall unified Germany and showed the Cold War was over.

Homework Fall of USSR map & GR ch 13 section 1 SIN #55 cont