1. THE 1970'S

9. WHY WAS KHRUSCHEV REMOVED?

11. LEONID BREZHNEV

15. 1970’S: 1)ONLY 32% OWNED A REFRIGERATOR 2) ONLY 50% OWNED A TV

17. THE BREZHNEV DOCTRINE

19. PRAGUE SPRING 68’

24. DOMESTIC PROBLEMS: THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY SUCKS

25. Lines were hours and hours long!

35. SOVIET CARS SUCKED!!!!

48. SOVIET APARTMENTS SUCKED!!

56. JAPAN

57. MANHATTAN

59. CAPITALISM VS. COMMUNISM

60. AFTER WWII, RUSSIA’S GDP JUST KEPT FALLING AND FALLING

63. VLADIMIR PUTIN

64. No one showed up for work because YOU GOT PAID REGARDLESS! Everyone was drunk all the time. Life expectancy was 60 years old. Anything you got, you got off the Black Market

69. LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS 60 YRS. OLD

73. BREZHNEV HELPS THE FARMERS 1.First of all, Brezhnev relaxed some of Stalin’s collectivization practices and gave famers private plots. THIS IS A HUGEEEE DEAL

74. 2. He also let them grow what they want 3. And he lets them keep their keep and sell some of their surplus fruits and vegetable

75. BY THE 1970’S: 4% OF ALL LAND 30% OF ALL FOOD

80. He also told factories to start producing consumer goods to appease the natives so to speak. In 1970 32% owned a fridge / By 1980 86% In 1970 31% owned a T.V. / By 1980 86%

82. BREZHNEV REVISES THE SOVIET 1977 CONSTITUTION. YAY!  NO POLITICAL OPPOSITION IS ALLOWED  ONLY ONE NAME ON THE BALLOT  BUT NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH  NO FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY  NO FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

83. THE PRAGUE SPRING OF 1968

86. THE BREZHNEV DOCTRINE

87. WE HAVE A DUTY TO PROTECT SOCIALISM WORLDWIDE! HE STATES THAT “IF YOU REVOLT, POLAND, ROMANIA, HUNGARY WE WILL CRUSH YOU!!!! AND WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO JEOPARDIZE IT. EVEN IF WE MUST SLAUGHTER EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!

88. PRAGUE SPRING 68’

93. BREZHNEV WILL ALSO PURSUE A POLICY OF DÉTENTE WITH PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON

94. DÉTENTE: MEANS “RELAXING TENSION” IN FRANCAIS BUT WHY PURSUE IT?

95. #3.THE USSR HAS AS MANY NUKES AS THE U.S. THIS IS KNOWN AS NUCLEAR PARITY YAY!

96. 2. THE ARMS RACE IS EXPENSIVE - RUSSIA IS SPENDING 25% OF THEIR GDP ON THEIR MILITARY - AMERICA IS SPENDING QUITE A BIT ON IT AS WELL - VIETNAM IS RAGING AND WE NEED RUSSIA’S HELP TO GET OUT OF IT.

98. 1.THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS BROUGHT US TO THE BRINK OF WWIII. HALTING NUCLEAR TESTING IS NOT ENOUGH.

101. #2.THE USSR HAS AS MANY NUKES AS THE U.S. THIS IS KNOWN AS NUCLEAR PARITY YAY!

102. BUT WHAT’S IN IT FOR THE US? 5. UM, WE NEED RUSSIA AND CHINA’S HELP IN GETTING OUT OF VIETNAM (LOOZERS!) 6. ALSO, ARMS CONTOL WOULD SAVE US MONEY REALPOLITIK: LET’S GET SERIOUS, THE USSR AND CHINA ARE HERE TO STAY GODDAMNIT! SO, WE MUST NEGOTIATE! IN OTHER WORDS, LET’S TAKE A REALISTIC, NOT AN IDEALISTIC VIEW TOWARDS RUSSIA AND CHINA. THEY’RE HERE TO STAY!

103. THINGS START TO IMPROVE A LITTLE DÉTENTE: 1963: ATMOSPHERIC TEST BAN TREATY 1968: NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

104. SALT (1972) ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY (MISSILE DEFENSY SYSTEMS: JUST 2 LOCALES WITH 100 MISSILES EACH INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES TREATY SALT II: AFTER AFGHANISTAN, THE US SENATE NEVER SIGNED IT!

107. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES AGREEMENT: LAID OUT HOW THE 2 SUPERPOWERS WOULD WORK TOGETHER TO PRVENET NUCLEAR WAR AND HOW THEY WOULD RESPOND IF NUCLEAR WAR WAS IMMINENET. EVENTUALLY, WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW WOULD GET A HOTLINE, THE RED PHONE, DURING REAGAN’S TENURE TENURE.