Transcript BOPA: 2/25/14 - KinardHollinger

BOPA: 2/25/14
Describe the most important events and the
results of the Vietnam War in a few complete
sentences.
End of the Cold War
To start class:
Get out your Cold War paper from last class.
For each of the four sections draw a picture
showing your understanding of how that
topic relates to the Cold War.
Please draw three pictures for the
SALT/Detente/Helsinki Accords section.
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
SALT Treaty
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks- 1972
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Nixon & Brezhnev
Limited the number of Anti-Ballistic Missile
sites
Detente: Nixon
Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is
the name given to a period of improved relations
between the United States and the Soviet Union that
began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when
President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general
of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in
Moscow, May 1972.
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/detente/videos
Helsinki Accords: Ford
Signatories agreed to
1. Respect state boundaries established after World War II
2. Abide by international laws
3. accept a set of basic human rights for all people
Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI)
Star Wars:
-Wanted to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to
prevent missile attacks from other countries
-Did not happen because:
-Too expensive
-We didn’t want to disrupt the detente we had formed with the USSR
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/vi
ew/assetGuid/E49BAA3F-B671-4AEA-B99229520B101299
Star Wars
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a
program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan.
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic
missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries,
specifically the Soviet Union. With the tension of the Cold War looming
overhead, the Strategic Defense Initiative was the United States’ response to
possible nuclear attacks from afar. Although the program seemed to have no
negative consequences, there were concerns brought up about the program
“contravening” the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) of the Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks years before. For this reason, in conjunction with
budgetary constraints, the Strategic Defense Initiative was ultimately set
aside.
End of the Cold War
LT: I can explain how the Cold War ended.
Ping Pong Diplomacy:
Nixon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJ4wh1k
wR8
Mikhail Gorbachev
new reform-minded leader of the
Soviet Union, 1985
glasnost (openness)
perestroika (political and economic
reforms)
Ronald Reagan
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” – Ronald Reagan (1987 speech at Berlin
)Wall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX00QkvK-mQ
Iron Curtain is Raised (1989-1991)
1. Lech Walesa and Solidarity force elections in Poland
2. demonstrators fill streets of Eastern European cities
3. Berlin Wall falls (November 9, 1989)
4. Gorbachev arrested by hard-line communists (coup
d'état attempt)
5. defeat of coup leads all 15 republics of USSR to
declare independence
6. December 25, 1991 – Soviet Union collapses
7. re-unification of Germany
Homework:
Monday, March 3: Review Guide due
Friday, March 7: Summative
Lech Walesa and Solidarity force elections
in Poland
Berlin Wall Falls
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
Soviet Union Collapses
December 25, 1991
In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union
disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a
victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of
the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States rejoiced as its
formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which
had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II. Indeed, the
breakup of the Soviet Union transformed the entire world political situation, leading
to a complete reformulation of political, economic and military alliances all over
the globe.