Today, in class, we presented.
Matt went. NEW MAP OF EUROPE.
Before the end of the Cold War, the map looked different than it does now. Yugoslavia and the USSR broke up into several smaller countries. The USSR was known as the Iron Curtain, because nobody really knew what was going on there. The USSR started to collapse in 1991. Countries that formed from USSR: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Maldova, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
Estonia broke out for economic freedom, and they were able to do so when the USSR was weakened trying to become democratic. They gained independence on Sept. 6th, 1991.
Latvia was also part of the Baltic States. Lithuania. Joined UN on Sept. 18, 1991.
Moldova adopted the Declaration of Sovereignty. in 1991. gained independence I suppose.
Russia. Mikhail Gorachev came to power and leaned toward a more democratic state. The USSR broke up in 1991. After the Communist Russia tried to remove Gorbachev, the Ukrainian gov't passed the Act of Independence. They became a nation on August 24, 1991.
Belarus became free on December 8th, 1991. They had a National Constitution passed in March of some other year.
Bosnia and Heregovina broke free from YUGOSLAVIA.
Berlin blockade and airlift was when the USSR tried to blcok the allied access into Berlin. When all of this ended, i was a failure for the USSR. They believed this is what caused the beginning of the Cold War. Stalin was aiming toward wanting to destroy Germany, but the US and Britain wanted to help rebuild it. The US and USSR had different plans for what they wanted to happen to Germany. The three western zones of Germany were to unite and had the political authority to receive aid from the Marshall Plan.
The airlift began on June 24, 1948. It wasa rough year because Harry Truman wanted to re-elect. They thought they were looking at WWII with USSR over a conflict in Berlin. By sept. of 1947 the US and Great Britian combined their military zones into one area and called it Bizonia. Trizonia established their own currency on June 18th, 1948. UHHH. Blockade of Berlin finalled passed over on May 12th, 1949
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