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Lecture Guide: End of Cold War

 

 

Cold War Review:

 

• ________________, ________________, and ________________ battles

• Between the ______ and ___________

• Competition to be the #1 _________________

• Began in _______ and ended in _________

• Affected ___________ events for almost  _______ years.

 

 

German Reunification:

1989

• Soviet Communism _______________

 

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• East & West Berliners begin to __________________________

 

• German voters _________________ Germany with a _____________________ government

 

 

 

USSR in the 1980s:

Mikhail Gorbachev

• Wanted to ________ the Cold War

• Domestic Reforms:

  • Glasnost

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    • Ended _______________ and encouraged discussion of government

 

• Perestroika

  • ___________________ of the government & economy

 

 

 

Fall of Communism:

Causes

• Cold War ____________ drain ____________ (money & people)

• Ethnic tensions lead to _______________ movements

• Gorbachev’s Reforms:

  • _____________________________ (shortages, high prices, & unemployment)

  • ______________________________________________ - critics call for changes

 

• Gorbachev ___________ in 1991

• 1992 President _______ and Boris ___________ (Russian President) sign an official treaty __________ the Cold War

 

Effects

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  • Civil Wars

  • Corruption

  • Economic Reforms

  • Ethnic Tensions

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