End of Cold War

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Detente in Action

  • US and USSR became open to cooperating with each other and with less friendly countries

  • Started to visit each other countries and discuss important issues like nuclear weapons

  • In June 1973: Brezhnev visited US to sign Agreement on Prevention of Nuclear War, where both sides agreed to do anything to avoid nuclear war

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Decline of Detente

  • Carter abandoned detente and became aggressive to USSR

  • US and USSR began criticizing each other actions again and accused each other of breaking their promises

  • Carter blamed USSR for not settling disputes peacefully where by USSR was making things worse by supplying weapons to allies in war zones like Angola

  • Brezhnev countered that the US was doing the same in Central and South America

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Decline of USSR in the 1970s and 1980s

Here comes a Sarang

<p>Here comes a Sarang </p>
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Soviet Economy before 1970s

  • Soviet command economy was based on the state deciding which areas of economy should receive investment and be developed

  • Controlled resources, production and vital aspects of economy

  • USSR relatively backward and many lived in poverty and squalor

  • However, USSR later transformed into modern industrial power with impressive growth rates and became a modern economy with industries and infrastructures

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Weaknesses of Soviet Economy

  • USSR began to experience a decline in growth rate

  • Industrial output decreased from double to single digit

  • Agriculture output decreased from 4.8% to 1.8%

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Weaknesses of Soviet Economy

Structural Weaknesses of Command Economy

  • Soviet economy worked relatively well with small numbers of large industries

  • But overtime the Soviet economy grew and Soviet economy became overwhelmed by increasing demands

  • Unable to cope with many companies making many different goods

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Weaknesses of Soviet Economy

External Burdens on the Economy

  • USSR fought proxy wars and supported money, technical equipment to many allies

  • Soviet troops entered Afghanistan to maintain power of pro-soviet government, but tied down by Mujahideen

  • Mujahideen new the territory and had more experience in guerrilla warfare and supplied with money and weapons by US and Saudi, detrimental to USSR

  • USSR invested too much in military power, Afghanistan war was expensive

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Weaknesses of Soviet Economy

Poor Standard of Living

  • Command economy prioritize industry and military spending over consumer goods

  • Workers wages were not increasing

  • Over-investment in military took money away from areas such as education, R&D in universities

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Weaknesses of Soviet Economy

Disillusionment of Workforce

  • Soviet workers found their bosses were appointed due to personal connections or bribes

  • Wages tightly controlled with limited incentives for workers to work hard

  • Those protested risked being arrested by secret police

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Opposition to Communism in Eastern Europe