1. Ch. 18.5
The End of the Cold War

2. Soviet Union Declines
Labor camps continued
Khrushchev greater freedom of speech
Used military to support communism

3. Launching of Sputnik I in 1957
Command economy no match for market economy
Could not match Reagan’s missiles

4. 1979 war with Afghanistan
Mujahedin- Muslim warriors
Americans began to smuggle weapons

5. 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev came to power
Changes spiraled out of control
Pulled out of Afghanistan
Signed arms control treaties with U.S.

6. Glasnost- openness
Perestroika- restructuring of govt.
Moved towards a free market
Economic turmoil
unemployment

7. Independence for Baltic states
Gorbachev would resign
1991 remaining Soviet republics separated
After 69 yrs. the Soviet Union did not exist

8. Changes Transform E. Europe
Hungary quietly reformed without any problems
Poland-1980 strikes by shipyard workers
Solidarity

9. Walesa became a national hero
East Germany remained strict
Citizens fled
1989 Poland has free elections

10. Gates between East and West Germany open
Czechoslovakia was divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic

11. Communism Declines Around the World
Capitalism in China
No political change
Vietnam opened doors to world
North Korea did not

12. Hundreds of thousands died of starvation
U.S. as Superpower