1. Cold War – Thaw and End

2. Eastern bloc challenges to Soviet authority: Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968)
Alexander
Dubcek
Imre Nagy

3. The Sino-Soviet Treaty of friendship
Ended in 1960, despite a 30 year treaty signed in Why?

5. From brinkmanship to détente:
Stalin, Kruschev, Breshnev
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LB Johnson
Berlin Airlift, U-2 incident, Korea, Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, 2-China’s, space race,etc.
Breshnev
Nixon, Ford, Carter
Reopening relations with China; SALT I; SALT II*; Helsinki Accords

6. THE END OF DÉTENTE Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Reagan Administration (SDI – Strategic Defense Initiative)
Nicaragua, El Salvador
Gorbachev

7. How did glasnost & perestroika affect the USSR?
Glasnost resulted in:
Churches opening
Printing of banned books
Freed dissidents from prison
Free Press
Perestroika resulted in
Restructured economy
Private businesses
Democratization / greater freedom resulted in
Elections for legislative body
New leaders came to office
Foreign policy resulted in
Greater emphasis on diplomacy

8. Reforms in Eastern Europe
POLAND – Lech Walesa &
Solidarity 1989
Hungary
Hungarian leaders implemented sweeping reforms
Communist Party dissolved
1994 – Socialists (former Communists) formed an alliance with Democrats

9. Other changes: Fall of Berlin Wall - 1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall –
Germany Reunited
Fall of Berlin Wall
1989 – Oct. East Germans went to West Germany via Hungary
Honecker lost control>> Krenz>> opens wall >> corruption >> Krenz resigned.
Oct. 3, 1990 >> Germany reunited

10. From Gorbachev to Yeltsin…