Post Cold War

Richard Nixon

Involved in Vietnam War, established triangulation, and new federalism

Mikail Gorbachev

Soviet Union Leader who introduced glasnost

Ronald Reagan

took a firm line against communism, funded new military technology, was willing to establish treaties with the soviets.

Vaclav Havel

New president of Czechoslovakia when the communist government collapsed. Issues with new government led to peaceful division of the country to Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Janos Kadar

Under the rule of Kadar in Hungary, conditions improved.

Helmut Kohl

The leader of West Germany until reunification, then the first Chancellor of the New Germany.

Boris Yeltsin

Became president after Gorbachev resigned. He quickly tried to make free market reforms.

Vladimir Putin

After the resignation of Boris Yeltsin

Josip Broz Tito

Worked to keep Yugoslavia United (dictator, but well liked)

Russian Oligarchs

Detante

The policy of relaxing tensions between the United States and its Communist rivals

New Federalism

Reduce the size of the government, end several federal programs, more control to state and local governments.

Triangulation

Nixon exploited the tense relationship between China and the Soviet Union to strengthen American interests and relationships with each other.

Perestroika

Market economy more responsive to consumers

Glasnost

Policy permitting open discussion of political and social

One-child policy

China’s policy for lowering the population

Four Modernizations

Industryu, agiculture, technology, national defense

Fifth Modernization

Democracy

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT 1)

Temporarily froze the number of strategic nuclear weapons.

Watergate

(1972) Five men were arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee. One of the men, James McChord, was a former CIA agent.

Berlin Wall speech

Speech by Roland Reagan- “Tear down this wall”

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 1989 East Germany allowed free movement between the two sides of Berlin.

Poland’s push away from communism

Workers protest led to demands for change, polish regime agreed to free parliamentary elections, Lech Walesa chosen as president.

Velvet Revolution

Mass demonstrations in Czechoslovakia

Split of Czechoslovakia

New government led to old ethnic conflicts and led to peaceful division.

Tiananmen Square

Where Chinese troops open fired on people protesting the government.

a factor that lead to the end of the cold war and how that factor directly contributed to the end of the cold war

The economic collapse of the Soviet Union was a primary factor that led to the end of the Cold War. The USSR could no longer sustain its empire or ideological competition with the West, forcing it to dissolve in 1991.

the political, economic, and social challenges the soviet union was facing and how those led to the fall of the Soviet Union

Due to economic issues, intense ethnic nationalism, and failed political forms like perestroika and glasnost that were intended to fix the system.

how global power shifted after the cold war and the fall of the Soviet Union

The US was top of the global order rather than going to either the US or Soviet Union.

What province in Yugoslavia was stripped of its autonomy?

Kosovo

What country’s movement away from communism involved leadership from a trade union?

Poland

What signaled North Korea’s desire to become a nuclear power?

its exit from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

What is the current state of all the republics of Yugoslavia?

They have all become independent countries.

What event marked the end of the cold war?

The collapse of the Soviet Union

Yugoslavia was made up of 20 different…

ethnic groups.