Invasion of Afghanistan Continued...
President Carter ordered and embargo against the soviet union
wheaet and weapons were restricted
17 million tons of corn, wheat and soybeans was not sent to the soviet union
carter put the embargo into acion and siat wit was to be in action until the soviet troops left afghanistan
US boycotted the Olympics in Moscow
the afghans did compete
after the war between afghnistan and the USSR, terrorism was on the rise
it was aimed toward the soviet and any othe rcommunist related countries
carter ordered this to protest the invasion
the US did not let any of its athletes compete in the even while other countries did
only 16 countries competed but did nto march under their flags
INF Treaty
perestroika- means reconstructing and rebuilding
it was commonly used in 1980 in the soviet union by the leader Gorbachev
it was used during the communist party reform a lot
it was a part of the revolution of 1989 and the end of the cold war
glasnost- openess
it was used by Forbachev
he used it to mean the polices he thought were open minded
policies he thought would help stop the curruption of the communist party
this word had been in dictionary for as long as they were around said Alexeyeva
Intermediate range Nuclear force treaty
it was an agreement signed by the soviet union and US
the treaty eliminated nuclear and conventinal ground launches
ballistic and cruise missiles were not allowed to be used in intermediate ranges
Regan was one of the People who signed the treaty
he was the president of the US at the time
gorbachev was the other guy who signed the treaty
he was the leader of the soveit union
they signed the treaty because of how it would come if one country would use it so would the other
Regan wanted to stop the cold war
agreed on it because if one person used theirs the other person would shoot right back on them
The Berlin Wall Coming Up and Going Down
Closed the border in 1952
constructed by the german democratic republic
Started on August 12 1961
completed on August 13 1961
soviet workers tore up the streets in Berlin
First it was guarded by barbed wire
in 1965 concrete wall with guard towers were built
area between the two fences was the death strip
seperate west berlin from east berlin and east germany
political move to stop easter germans from escaping german democratic republic
germany was split into 4 regions French, British, United States, Soviet Union
French souwest, British Northwest, United States south, Soviet Union east
* use this on semester test!!
west berlin could get supplies a lot cheaper than east berlin
west berlin was democracy and east berlin was communist
How people tried to escape- wall was built all the way around
buildings close to the wall, so they would jsut jump out the buildings
some tried to climb it
ram trucks into the wall to try and break it
build tunnels
built a hot air balloon and flew over the wall
people lost their jobs because of the wall
many people were killed
lsot the families
many people were unable to go home
injured trying to escape
when the berlin wall fall- November 9 1989
symbol of the end of the cold war
demolition of the wall June 13 1990
government allowed east germans to travel anywhere
Gorbachev made it clear that they would violently supresses people in its satellite
Harry Truman ordered the airlift that saved a starvation city
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