The Soviets go into Afghanistan:
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan kinda by invitation of the communists government in it to help them out.
We finance some group in there to go against them, and that group eventually turned into the Tailiban.
The US took the side of Afghanistan and we put an embargo on the Soviet Union (stopped giving them wheat)
After the Soviets pulled out of the war, terrorism was on the rise.
INF Treaty.
Perestroika- Term used by the Soviet Union leader in the 80's to try to get away from all the Communist power.
It was the end of the Cold War and the revolution.
Glasnost- means openess. Wanting to open their country to new policies other than the communist. Thought it would help stop the corruption of the communist party.
The INF treaty stand for Intermediate range Nuclear force treaty. It eliminated nuclear and convetinal ground launches and Ballistic and cruise missles were not allowed to be used in intermidiate ranges. Regan signed this with Gorbachev of the soviets, was the leader.
The Berlin Wall Coming Up and Going Down deffinatly talk about Berlin on the Test...
The Berlin wall was built in 1961. Built by the German Democratic Republics (aka communists).
It was built to keep the East Communist side IN. Seperated east germany from west. Was all the way around the eastern part.
Political move to stop Eastern Germans from escaping German Communists, they wanted the same freedoms of the people of the west. West Berlin was also cheeper and had more work.
Some families were seperated and many were killed trying to escape by digging under or attempting to do crazy things to get out.
In 1989 demolition of the wall began, but it really signified the ending of the cold war. A lot of people went crazy and started to hack it down themselves.
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