1. BOPA: 2/25/14 Describe the most important events and the results of the Vietnam War in a few complete sentences.

2. End of the Cold War

3. 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.

4. Soviets Invade Afghanistan

6. SALT Treaty Strategic Arms Limitation Talks- 1972 Nixon & Brezhnev Limited the number of Anti-Ballistic Missile sites

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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-B992- 29520B101299

10. 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.

11. End of the Cold War LT: I can explain how the Cold War ended.

12. Ping Pong Diplomacy: Nixon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJ4wh1k wR8

13. Mikhail Gorbachev new reform-minded leader of the Soviet Union, 1985 glasnost (openness) perestroika (political and economic reforms)

14. Ronald Reagan Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” – Ronald Reagan (1987 speech at Berlin )Wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX00QkvK-mQ

15. 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

17. Homework: Monday, March 3: Review Guide due Friday, March 7: Summative

18. Lech Walesa and Solidarity force elections in Poland

19. Berlin Wall Falls http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall

23. 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.