invasion of afghanistan:
president carter put an embargo on the soviet union so they didn't get a lot of crops
US boycotts the moscow olympics- aimed toward the soviets and any other communist country
INF Treaty:
perestroika- recontstructing or rebuilding
commonly used by gorbachev (soviet union leader)
used a lot during the communist party reform
glasnost- openness- opening the country to new policies- policies that would help stop the corruption of the communist party
INF treaty- intermediate range nuclear force treaty
treaty eliminated nuclear and conventinal ground launches
signed by the US and the soviet union
regan was president at this time
gorchev was the leader of the soviet union
the berlin wall coming up and going down:
built in the 1960s; was built over night
first it was a barbed wire fence (done over night) the concrete was begun in 1965
it was built to seperate east berlin and east germany
stop eastern germans from escaping german democratic republic
west berlin was a democracy; east berlin was communist
east lost many skilled workers
ppl would try and escape by jumping out of buildings over the wall
many tried to build tunnels under the wall
many ppl lost their jobs because of the wall
they lost their families
many were killed trying to escape
falling of the berlin wall- fell around the 1990s
symbol of the end of the cold war
allowed free travel
many people involved in the berlin wall
regan was against the wall
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