Presenters Notes
- Cold War
- Main Goal
- Spread communism during/ in the cold war
- Ronald Reagan
- did well in making the relationship with USSR the best it could be
- relationship was worst was during the cold war (60’s)
- Gorbachev
- first and only president of soviet union
- was communist
- got rid or Stalin practices
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- labor camps
- known for political and economic reforms
- famous for Glasnost- openness in the government
- McCarthy
- little black book with celebrities and famous people who were communist
- lost power and respect because of this
- big scare because people thought communism was spreading
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- American CIA went in to Cuba with the intent to remove Castro but didn’t work
- JFK in president and goes into cube with that intent
- Cuban missile crisis
- USSR put missiles in Cuba
- aggressive stance
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- said to use for protection but was lying
- when JFK was president
- Brinkmanship
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- going to the brink of war without actually going to war
- Space Race
- started before JFK but he had a big push for it
- USSR first to send a ship or satellite to space was Sputnik
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- also put a dog in space and he died
- Communism
- quality of government
- Socialism
- quality of the economy
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- pay being the same
- KGB
- equivalent to CIA
- Detente
- known as the relaxing period or easing of tension
- Peaceful Co-existence
- Main Goal
- USSR and America could both exist without conflict
WORLD WAR 2
- Allies:
- United States and Great Britain
- USSR and France
- Axis Powers
- Italy, Japan and Germany
- Spain was communistic
- Anything communistic –USSR supported
- Germany invaded USSR in summer
- Thought battle would be quick and decisive; they were wrong so they did not pack any winter gear. The biggest tragedy was after a town was defeated they would burn it down or destroy it so that the Germans could not resupply or get food.
- Vldamier Lenin
- First person to put communism into action from the deals of Marx.
Equivalent to socialism = capitalism
Equivalent to communism = democracy
- Joseph Stalin
- USSR leader/dictator
- Set up labor camps for his own people
- Responsible for 10 million + deaths
ROMANOVS AND THE PATH TO REVOLUTION
- Sar Nicholas II
- Cut minimum wage in half
- Last ruler until the Bolshevik Revolution
- Last ruler until the Bolshevik Revolution
- He and his family were executed after the Bolshevik Revolution
- Bloody Sunday
- People are peacefully protesting
- Sar Nicholas says to have a bunch of the protesters killed
- Police force end up killing lots of people
- They had an empire at this time, power was passed down through family
POST COLD WAR RUSSIA
- Vladimir Putin
- President from 2000 to 2008
- Left and worked for the prime minister
- Became president in 2012
- Currently serving as president of Russia
START – strategic arms reduction treaty
- Signed in 2010 with Obama
ANCIENT RUSSIA
Russia: the beginnings
- The early history of Russia, like those of many countries, is one of migrating peoples and ancient kingdoms
- Early Russia was not exactly “Russia” but a group of cities that gradually merged into an empire
- A group of Scandinavian people (Varangians) crossed the Baltic Sea and landed in Eastern Europe. The leader of the Varangians was the warrior Rurik.
- By 989, Vladimir I was ruler of a kingdom that extended to as far south as the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains and the lower reaches of the Volga River
- He established a state religion
- He carefully considered a number of available faiths and decided upon Greek Orthodoxy, thus allying himself with Constantinople and the West
- He decided against Islam partly because of his belief that his people could not live under a religion that prohibits hard liquor.
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