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How did the Cold War come to an end in the 1980s? Lesson Aim: To understand how the Cold War begun to end. TASK: What key points did the video last time raise? – Draw a picture on your mini whiteboard!

Who were the key figures? – Draw 8 boxes on A4 Ronald Regan – US President. Brezhnev – Soviet leader until 1982 Andropov – new Soviet leader until 1984 Chernenko – new Soviet leader until 1985 Gorbachev – new Soviet leader. Erich Honecker – German leader. Nicolae Ceausescu – Communist leader of Romania. General Wojtech Jaruzelski – Polish army general later PM in 1981.

Was an end to the Cold War Likely under Regan and his approach? Initial thoughts? – can you back this up with evidence? 1. Read top of p Regan’s militarised counter-revolution – spider diagram of no more than 8 key points. (Star Wars). 3.The Regan doctrine – spider diagram of no more than 12 points.

Add to spider diagram: Star Wars was an ambitious and extremely expensive plan to develop nationwide ballistic-missile defence system that would deploy weapons in outer-space to destroy enemy missiles in flight. See source G, p162.

What do the sources show?  How does your source show the opinion of Regan (A-C)?  How important was Thatcher in reinforcing Regan’s policy (D)?  To what extent does source E show Regan’s policy to have been successful?

What do you think this image shows?

What weakened the hold of the Soviet Union over Eastern Europe in the early 1980s? Lesson Aim: To assess how weak the Soviet hold became over Eastern Europe. TASK: How had the USSR gained influence in Eastern Europe?

Canadian news report of the revolution. By 1989…….. There were wide spread revolutions in many Soviet Eastern European countries including, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and East Germany wishing to shake off Soviet rule. In Romania they put Ceausescu on trial and executed him.

How did this weakening and eventual loss of Soviet control happen?  Economic issues.  Calls for political reform (first paragraph).  Read p163-4 and make 5 bullet points on each. What happened in specific countries? – short presentation. East Germany. Romania. Poland.