End of the Cold War

Question 1

1980s

Answer 1

• ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev become FRIENDS
• gorbachev needs to figure out a way to help the soviet economy
• both leaders begin to discuss a way for the US and the USSR to coexist

Question 2

gorbachev

Answer 2

• glasnost (good feelings)
• “let’s talk”
• perestroika (restructuring)
• nuclear arms race needs to end
• money can be used elsewhere for the economy

Question 3

berlin wall

Answer 3

• 1989 - wall comes down in berlin, germany
• wall had stood since 1961
• wall had been under the control of the USSR
• USSR abandons the wall and allows Berlin to reunify
• world view:
  what does this mean about the USSR?”

Question 4

USSR falls

Answer 4

• 1991 - communist government is overthrown
• “commonwealth of independent states”
• new flag - red, white and blue
• boris yelltsin - new president
• gorbachev - taken hostage - but free based on US pressure to not kill him (new president bush helps to free gorbachev)

Question 5

remember this…

Answer 5

the US won the cold war by bankrupting the soviet union. period. through the space race to the moon, and nuclear arms buildup, the Soviet Union could not keep up with the massive spending increase taking place