Why US Won Cold War
Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan- Prime Minister invaded to end Muslim traditions and take over land. Communist government doesnt belief in religion. Thousands of Muslims joined together to try to over throw. Amin killed, Babrak took over. Soliders desterted to go to Muslim group. US put ban on export of gain to Russia, knew Russia had got into their own Vietnam( they had no chance of winning it) Gorbachev took Russia out of Afghanistan.
Reagan and Gorbachev meetings- Before Gorbachev became leader Reagan said soviet uion was an evil empire. Didnt trust eachother at first. Disarmament plan: 50 percent reduction in nuclear arsenals. Gorbachev different goals- glasnot and perestoika. Chernobyl disaster: realize nuclear weapons were not the answer. Reagan proposed getting rid of all the nuclear weapons and buiild an SDI system. Gorbachev realized Regan wasnt going to attack. Trust each other in ending the build up of nuclear weapons. The Man who beat Communism but gave a lot of credit to Gorbachev.
Glasnost and Perestroika- People buying low quality items and suffered from shortage of freedom. Perestrokia: private bussinesses, ending price control by government, citizens have some say in government. Glasnot which means openness. Its goal was to include more people in political process and allowed criticism of governement officals.
Influencers like Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher- Trip to poland. "Revolution of SPirit"- motivated for freedom. Prime Minister of Great Britian- Alli. Supporter of Reagen; vocal about wrongs of Communism.
**Semester test inclue Glasnot and Perestrokia
War In Korea:
The Forgotten War. 1950-1953
After WWII Korea was split into two parts- north and south
back and forth war
North communist, South democratic
we were helping the south. China and soviet union on north
north invaded south and pushed them down to Pusan.
then the united nations gets involved and we invade
push back up on the pusan perimiter
we push them all the way back to the border between north korea and china
china gets nervous
Macarther says we should bomb China and then he got fired
Then China gets involved and pushes them all the way back
along the border- DMZ- demilitarized zone
fear is north korea will invade again so we have troops on this zone
tense along the border
north korea has recently devoloped nuclear weapons now
axis of evil list
have a lot of problems with relations with them
south korea is flurishing, north korea in bad conditions.
we have troops their along border
there was supposed to be an election to unify the country
to make it all communist
south korea doesnt have nuclear weapons
The Fall of Communism and the End of the Cold War
The fall of communism were the revolutions that overthrew the Soviet style communist states eastern-bloc european countries.
The cold war was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major cisis's occured, the cuban missile crisis, vietnam, and the berlin wall are just a few of them.
The countries inolved in the reolutions of the fall of communism are Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechslovakia, and Romania.
THe reason this tiem period is knowsn as the cold war is because both the US and Soviet Union were afraid to fight face to face with each other for fear that nuclear weapons would be used, and that could possibly just have destroyed the world.
Through a lot of agreements and treaties Russia adn the US began to reduce their numbers of nuclear weapons that each possessed. So finally the countries became more able to act like they weren't constantly have atomic bombs aimed at them.
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