Last Tuesday of the year! :)
End of the Cold War: Soviet Bloc started to fall apart in 1989. Poland, as well as other countries, elected non-communist governments. Hungary took down the barbed wire on the boarders of Austria and the West. Berlin wall began to be torn down in 1989. Communist Party was forced to resign after 73 years in the Soviet Union. Baltic states left the Soviet Union. Official end to the soviet union was Deceber 25, 1991. They were Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
The Fall of Communism: Signs of communism failing were visible in the mid-1989's. Mikhal Gorbachev tried to modernize the economy, made the communist party more democratic. Workers were encouraged to speak out. Economic and political systems gained more freedom. Iron curtain grew extremely weak. Soviet Union was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States, was the untimate symbol of the fall of communism. Glasnogst. Pereestroika led to the communism collapsing in the soviet union.
Why the US won the Cold War: East and West Germany re-unified in 1990.Gorbachev was held hostage n 1989. Because he wanted to take power. -The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, it really took their resources. -Gorbachev's changing ways. Glasnogst, and Peristroika. -Detaunt in the 70's and the reduction of nuclear weapons. Gorbachav and Reagans coninuous meetings.
-Perestroika-russian for "reconstructing. Was a political movement within the CCommunist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980's. They're changing it from Communist
Glasnost- was russian for openness. Policy of maximal publicity, openness and transparency in the activities of stuff.
-INF treaty was formally known as being the treaty between the US and Soviet Socialist Republics on the elimination of intermediate range. It eliminated the use of nuclear weapons.
The Korean War: June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. Was a conflict between communist North and Anti-communist South. Communist North invaded the South. We supported the south. In the beginning the North Korean troops overwhelmed South Korean and American forces and drove them to a small area in South around the City of Pusan. Called the Pusan Perimiter. Our goal was to contain Communism. Douglas MacArthur was a UN commander who invaded behind North Korean troops at inchon. UN toops pushed the NOrth Koreans back and continued toward the Yalu border of north Korea and China. The nickname is the "Forgotten War."
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