New Map of Europe
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia breaking up had a lot of war
seven present day countries are bosnia and Herzengovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montengro, Serbia Slovenia
Czechoslovakia
Velvet Revolution peaceful protest by students lead to downfall of Communist Czechoslovakia
Czech political parties were not ver yprominent in Slovakia and the other way around
People thought this meant they should split, it was done peacefully
Different from other Communist breakups bc it was peaceful
Baltic States
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania first to leave Soviet union, made others want to
1920 they were recognized as independent countries
June 1940 Red army occupied these countries
Late 1980s singing revolution
August 23, 1989 about 2 million people held hands forming a 600 kilometer long chain across the three countriesm, Baltic Way
Countries regained indepence in 1990 and 1991
Soviets recognized it on Sep 6 1991
USSR
they have always wanted a buffer zone did not want german invasion repeat
Loosing the baltic States was a big blow others followed
Invasion in afghanistan also lead to their downfall
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
11 members
not a peace keeping organization by itself but it does send people to UN peace keeping forces
Makes sure these countries are on the same page, economy, no smuggling over boarders
Still in effect today
The Fall of Communism
Soviet Unioin
Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of the USSR between 1985 and 1991
the soviet unoin consisted of Russia and the 14 satellite countries that surrounded it
socailist and based on Marxist beleifts
Iron Curtain
speech given by churchill talking avout communism
represented the seperation of germany between democracy and communism
Mikhail Gorbachev
final leader of the soviet union between 1985 to 1991
his main goal was to bring soviet union back to power since the economy was falling apart
tried many ways to reform the soviet union with policies like Glasnost
Soviet Arms Race
the soviet union was stockpiling weapons in case a war with the US broke out
since the soviet union was socialist the gov chose what was created
the soviet union focused money into creating weapons and only made enough regulat goods for people to just get by
years of soviet military build up caused problems with domestic and economic growth
the USSR lost the arms reace to US
they had not advanced in many areas other than weapons
war never broke out between the US and the USSR bc both sides had nuclear weapons
both sides used the nuclear weapons as a defensive strategy
Glasnost
creatin 1988 by mikhail
gave more freedom of speech to citizens
caused many repressed beliefs about the soviet gov to become more widespread
Common wealth of Independent states
formed during the break up of the soviet union and is made up of former soviet republicans
15 total countries broke off from the Union of Soviet Socialist
Boris Yeltsin
the first president of russia on june 12 1991
tried turning the socailist command economy to a free market economy
not popular with citizens
Vietnam War (Mr. Bruns powerppoint)
1950-1975
hochiminh dressed like a peasant even though he was very wealthy
he was tought in the way of communist
becomes a expert on communsim
very upset bc he assumed that we said french would give independence to Vietnam
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