Date: 3/9/16 Activity: End of Cold War Welcome to Contemporary U.S. and World History Pg Assignment Date 24 Iran-Contra PPT Notes 3/7 25 Iran-Contra/Watergate Comparison 26 End of Cold War PPT Notes 3/8 27 Independence Movements in Eastern Europe 28 Soviet Reforms 28A Independence Movements Reading Packets (6th prd) Date: 3/9/16 Activity: End of Cold War Warm Up: Do the First PDN on your PPT notes (page 26) Homework: -*Independence Movements Notes due Tuesday 3/15 -3rd period will complete in class Thursday, ( 6th period: Use packets to answer)

Date: 3/10/16 Activity: End of Cold War Warm Up: None Homework: Welcome to Contemporary U.S. and World History Pg Assignment Date 24 Iran-Contra PPT Notes 3/7 25 Iran-Contra/Watergate Comparison 26 End of Cold War PPT Notes 3/8 27 Independence Movements in Eastern Europe 28 Soviet Reforms 28A Independence Movements Reading Packets (6th prd) Date: 3/10/16 Activity: End of Cold War Warm Up: None Homework: -*Independence Movements Notes due Tuesday 3/15 -3rd period will complete in class Thursday, ( 6th period: Use packets to answer) Reagan and George H.W. Bush Test Thursday 3/17 -NO STUDY GUIDE

THE END OF THE COLD WAR

RONALD REAGAN STRONG STANCE VS. USSR: HARSH RHETORIC: USSR THE “EVIL EMPIRE” BUILDS UP U.S. MILITARY TO USE AS LEVERAGE IN NEGOTIATIONS DO NOW! EXPLAIN HOW HAVING A STRONGER MILITARY WOULD HELP THE U.S. NEGOTIATE WITH THE USSR. RONALD REAGAN

STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) U.S. BEGINS RESEARCH ON ANTI- MISSILE SATELLITE DEFENSE SYSTEM NICKNAMED “STAR WARS” USSR CONCERNED: BELIEVE U.S. CAN MAKE SYSTEM WORK MANY AMERICANS SKEPTICAL: TECHNOLOGY DID NOT EXIST TOO EXPENSIVE

REAGAN SUPPORTS ANTI-COMMUNIST REBELS (CONTRAS) IN NICARAGUA

REAGAN INVADES CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF GRENADA GRENADA DEVELOPING CLOSE TIES WITH COMMUNIST CUBA

GORBACHEV TAKES OVER 1985 – MIKHAIL GORBACHEV NEW LEADER OF USSR: INHERITS MANY PROBLEMS TRIES NEW LIBERAL REFORMS: GLASNOST - ALLOWED OPEN CRITICISM OF THE USSR AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS PERESTROIKA – ECONOMIC REFORMS - SOME PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FIRST STEPS TOWARDS LIMITED DEMOCRACY

THE SOVIET ECONOMY BEGINS TO COLLAPSE: INEFFICIENCIES ATTEMPTS TO MATCH U.S. MILITARY SPENDING Star Wars (SDI) Comparison between USSR and US economies (1989) according to 1990 CIA World Factbook[19] USSR US GDP (1989 - millions $) 2,659,500 5,233,300 Population (July 1990) 290,938,469 250,410,000 GDP Per Capita ($) 9,211 21,082 Labour force (1989) 152,300,000 125,557,000

NEW SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY SOUGHT BETTER RELATIONS WITH U.S. SIGNED TREATY TO REDUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCED BY BOTH U.S. & USSR ALLOWED COMMUNIST SATELLITE NATIONS TO BECOME DEMOCRATIC & INDEPENDENT

REAGAN AND GORBY DISCUSSING THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TREATY

PLEASE DO NOW! WHY DO YOU THINK MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DECIDED TO SEEK BETTER RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. AND TO ALLOW THE FALL OF COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS IN EASTERN EUROPE?

POLAND LEADS THE WAY 1989: POLISH TRADE UNION SOLIDARITY DEFEATED THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN ELECTIONS LECH WAŁĘSA, THE LEADER OF SOLIDARITY, BECAME PRESIDENT OF POLAND

COLLAPSE OF EASTERN EUROPE EAST GERMANY: NOV. 1989: EAST GERMANY OPENED BERLIN WALL BERLINERS BEGAN TEARING DOWN THE WALL

BRINGING THE WALL DOWN

GERMANY WAS REUNIFIED IN 1990

OTHER REVOLUTIONS CZECHOSLOVAKIA VELVET REVOLUTION (NON-VIOLENT) LATVIA, LITHUANIA AND ESTONIA DECLARED THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE USSR HUNGARY, BULGARIA AND ROMANIA BECAME DEMOCRACIES

DECLINE OF THE SOVIET UNION GORBY’S REFORMS LED TO NATIONALISM IN NON-RUSSIAN SOVIET REPUBLICS COMMUNIST HARDLINERS FAILED IN AN ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW GORBACHEV IN DEC. 1991, 14 NON-RUSSIAN REPUBLICS DECLARED INDEPENDENCE GORBY RESIGNED & THE USSR (ALONG WITH THE COLD WAR) CAME TO AN END BORIS YELTSIN IS ELECTED THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

DO NOW! WOULD YOU GIVE PRESIDENT REAGAN ANY CREDIT FOR BRINGING THE COLD WAR TO AN END? EXPLAIN.

CHINA AFTER THE COLD WAR COMMUNISM GOES ON: IN 1980s CHINESE GOV’T EASED ITS GRIP ON BUSINESSES AND TRADE DEMANDS FOR DEMOCRACY: MASSIVE STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN BEIJING’S TIANANMEN SQUARE CHINESE MILITARY CRUSHED THE REVOLTS THE WORLD WATCHED IN HORROR AS ARMED FORCES SLAUGHTERED UNARMED STUDENTS

AN UNKNOWN PROTESTOR BLOCKS THE TANKS SENT TO BREAK UP THE STUDENT PROTESTS

Independence Movements Now you will read about the individual independence movements in the USSR. You will take notes on the notes page provided. Get the major points, you don’t need every detail! When looking for date of independence, some will be vague, try to look for date of free elections.

Reagan and the end of the Cold War