Please do not talk at this timeOct 22 HW: No HW! Please get out your: – Cold War paragraph – Your Rubric – Your soldier/peasant comparison chart. Staple these together and turn them in to the Turn in Box. Check for your Name! You will also need to get your map out.

The Berlin Wall Goes Up (1961)‏ Checkpoint Charlie Russians seek to stop the emigration of citizens to the West through West Berlin’s Airports They build a wall around West Berlin and kill anyone who tries to cross.

The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of August 13, It was a weekend and most Berliners slept while the East German government begun to close the border.

When the wall goes up in the middle of the night, people get trapped on one side or the other, away from friends and family. For the next three decades, people try to escape. Its easy at the beginning, but later requires more and more patience, time, and genius.

First Victim August 17, 1962 Peter Fechter, 18, a bricklayer from East Berlin, is shot and left to bleed to death in full view of western media. Bystanders in the West tried to rescue him, but were prevented from it at gunpoint.

Over the course of the Wall’s existence, 133 people were confirmed killed trying to cross into West Berlin according to official sources, while a victims’ group puts the number at over 200 dead.

Ich bin ein Berliner! (1963)‏ President Kennedy tells Berliners that the West is with them! (Or that he is a Jelly Donut. Kind of both…) ‏ (Or that he is a Jelly Donut. Kind of both…) ‏

Standoff at the Wall It began on October 22, 1961 as a dispute over whether East German guards were authorized to examine the travel documents of a U.S. diplomat passing through to East Berlin. By October 27, 10 Soviet and an equal number of American tanks stood 100 meters apart on either side of the checkpoint. The next day the East Germans, backed by the Soviets, backed down. What Cold War concept is this an example of?

June 12, 1987 President Ronald Reagan visits Berlin and calls on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

August 23, 1989, Communist Hungary removes its border restrictions with Austria. September 10, 1989 The Hungarian government opens border for East German refugees. More than 13,000 East Germans escape into Austria.

November 4, 1989 An estimated one million people attend a pro-democracy demonstration in East Berlin's main square. Within days, the East German Government resigns. November 9, 1989 The East German government announces that visits in West Germany and West Berlin will be permitted. Thousands of East Berliners pass into West Berlin as border guards stand by. People begin tearing down the wall which is opened. June 22, 1990 Checkpoint Charlie was removed on. A copy of the American guardhouse was erected on the original place on August 13, October 3, 1990 Germany is formally reunited.

And the Wall came down…

Berlin Wall Choose a symbol to represent the Berlin Wall and put it on the small map of Berlin (not Germany) on your map. In your map key (on the Left), indicate that your symbol represents the Berlin Wall. On the back of this paper explain what the Berlin Wall was. Put the Berlin Wall on the timeline from 1961 – 1989.

Please check your map… Your Map should have… All 6 Strategies of the Cold War Iron curtain Marshal Plan Molotov Plan Truman Doctrine Multinational Alliances NATO Warsaw Pact Brinkmanship Berlin Blockade and Airlift Containment Cuban Missile Crisis Korean War Propaganda Proxy Wars Vietnam Civil War in Nicaragua Revolution in Afghanistan Espionage- U-2 Spy Plane Incident Berlin Wall

Cold War Video Add to your map as we watch this video interviewing people from the Cold War

Please do not talk at this timeOct 23 HW: Make sure your Map has everything it needs and finish work from today…. Please get out your maps

Please check your map… Your Map should have… All 6 Strategies of the Cold War Iron curtain Marshal Plan Molotov Plan Truman Doctrine Multinational Alliances NATO Warsaw Pact Brinkmanship Berlin Blockade and Airlift Containment Cuban Missile Crisis Korean War Propaganda Proxy Wars Vietnam Civil War in Nicaragua Revolution in Afghanistan Espionage- U-2 Spy Plane Incident Berlin Wall Perestroika Glasnost Demokratizatsia Détente We will add these today!

Premier Nikita Khrushchev About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you. you De-Stalinization Program What does this quote reveal about relations between the USA and the USSR in the 1950’s? How does it reflect the action in Berlin and Korea?

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 Cold War map

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

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. 49A/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. Read the left hand column of the handout and highlight or underline key words. In the right hand column, record NEW information about Gorbachev and his policies from pgs in your text book.

Please do not talk at this timeOct 24/25 HW: Test on Tueday! Bring your Cold War Map to use and turn in! To be Collected Tuesday: Pg. 49 Soviet Reforms and 50 (Break up of the Soviet Union) in your notebook. Cold War Map- Cold War Test- MC and Short Answer NOTE: You May use your Cold War Map on your Test.

Please trade your Soviet Reforms Handout with a partner… Please sign your name after the words, Corrected By. Please make corrections to this paper…

Soviet Reforms Corrections:

Video on the fall of communism… Add Perestroika, Glasnost and Demokratizatsia and their definitions to your map.

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 map.

Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite Countries: Take up the whole page. Please set up your paper like this: RomaniaComparisonPoland What was life like before independence? How was independence achieved? What did the newly independent government look like? Use the handouts and your book starting on pg. 618 to fill out this chart. Then find things both countries had in common and put those in the middle column

Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite Countries: Take up the whole page. Please set up your paper like this: RomaniaComparisonPoland What was life like before independence? How was independence achieved? What did the newly independent government look like?

Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite Countries: Take up the whole page. Please set up your paper like this: RomaniaComparisonPoland What was life like before independence? How was independence achieved? What did the newly independent government look like?

With a partner… Get a placard on how Romania and Poland gained their independence from Russia with the fall of the Soviet Union. Read about each country and fill in the boxes on your chart. (left and right boxes) Finally, compare the two countries. What does their experience have in common? (middle box) Then, Read pgs and and add to your Romania/Poland Chart. Everyone needs their own paper but you and your partner can have the same answers!

Please do not talk at this timeOct 26 HW: Test on Tuesday! Bring your Cold War Map to use and turn in! Butter Battle Story End due Monday. To be Collected Tuesday: Pg. 49 Soviet Reforms and 50 (Break up of the Soviet Union) in your notebook. Pg. 51 Cold War Political Cartoon Analysis Cold War Map- Cold War Test- MC and Short Answer NOTE: You May use your Cold War Map on your Test.

Story Time: The Butter Battle Book- Pg. 52A Dr. Seuss wrote this book to teach children about the cold war. However, it was published before the Cold War ended. You will write a new ending for this book that covers the actual end of the Cold War. First, I will read you the story. As I read, record what each symbol and metaphor in the book stands for in the real life Cold War into the chart on your paper.

Now finish the story! Use the directions and the rubric on your paper to finish the story in a way that reflects what really happened when the Cold War ended.

Please do not talk at this timeOct 29 Share your Butter Battle Book End with your partner. Share out with all of us! HW: Test Tomorrow! Map and pgs to be collected also

Pg. 51A Cold War Cartoon Analysis Use the BASIC method to analyze Three of the Five political cartoons of the Cold War era. Do this on a piece of binder paper. B ackground A rgument S ymbolism I rony C aricature

Please get out Pg. 49A Soviet Reforms, Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite Countries, Pg. 51A Cold War Cartoon Analysis. Staple them together Check for your Name! Turn them in to the Turn In Box. You will also need to get your map out. Please do not Talk at this timeOct 30 HW: No HW-

Cold War Test

When you turn in your test: Map to the turn in box Scantron to the Scantron pile on the table Short answer to the front table Test to the test pile And pick up pg. 51A/B for HW

Pg 49A Soviet Reforms Pg. 50A The Breakup of Soviet Satellite Countries Pg. 51A Cold War Cartoon Analysis Pg. 52A Butter Battle Book End