Mandatory Activity List-HONORS (That’s all folks…)

12: Cuban Revolution and Bay of Pigs Invasion Book Notes13. Che Guevara Activity Materials (Spider Diagram, etc.)14.Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis PPT Notes15. Cold War in the Middle East PPT Notes16. Khomeini Character Map17. Cold War Thaws18. Gorbachev & Reform PPT19. Khrushchev Speech Qs20. Fall of the Berlin Wall (Book notes & Film Clip Questions)21. Rise of Democracy & Boris Yeltsin PPT Notes22. Yeltsin Character Map

The Cold War Thaws

Changes in US/Soviet Relations

The End of the Stalin

Era In 1953, Stalin

died, and shortly after that Nikita Khrushchev took over as leader of the Soviet Union.

The End of the Stalin

Era The Soviet Union

went through a period of destalinization when many of Stalin’s harsh policies were eliminated under Khrushchev’s rule.

Khrushchev Makes

Changes Khrushchev

said that the Soviets needed to have “peaceful competition” with capitalist countries.

Khrushchev Makes

Changes He gave people

in the Soviet Union more freedoms, but satellite nations were still under strict control.

Backing Down on

Brinkmanship After the Cuban

Missile Crisis, both US and USSR started to back down on their nuclear development programs.

Backing Down on

Brinkmanship Khrushchev

wanted to explore more peaceful ways to compete with capitalist countries.

Backing Down on

Brinkmanship Under the

leadership of President Richard Nixon, US would make changes to their nuclear policies too.

Lessening

Containment Efforts After the

Vietnam War, the US wanted to avoid foreign military involvements.

Lessening

Containment Efforts President Nixon

tried to work with communist countries to come to agreements and avoid conflicts.

Soviets Split with

China In 1950, Mao

and Stalin signed a 30 year friendship agreement.

Soviets Split with

China Mao decided

he didn’t want to follow the same kind of communism that the Soviet Union did.

Soviets Split with

China In 1959, when

Khrushchev refused to share nuclear secrets with China Mao ended the friendship treaty.

Many of the satellite nations

wanted more independence and freedom from the Soviet Union.

In Czechoslovakia tried to ease up on Soviet censorship policies and give people more freedoms – this time period was known as the Prague Spring.

Soviets Struggle with Satellite Nations

The USSR responded by sending

Warsaw Pact nations to invade Czechoslovakia.

This created a lot of anger amongst the satellite nations.

Soviets Struggle with Satellite Nations

Nixon Encourages

Détente President Nixon

would be the first president to visit China since they became communist and the first to ever visit the Soviet Union.

Nixon Encourages

Détente In 1972, Nixon and

Soviet leaders began SALT – strategic arms limitation talks, or discussions about limiting the number of nuclear weapons each country produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=FAhDQxPHvP0

Détente Video Clip

In the 1970s, tension rose again. The

harsh treatment of Soviet protesters threatened the SALT II negotiations taking place.

In 1979, Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II agreements. However, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Congress refused to ratify the agreement.

Détente Cools

Carter & Brezhnev sign SALT II in June 1979

Reagan cont’d the move away from

détente. In 1983, he announced the Strategic

Defense Initiative (SDI) also known as Star Wars to protect the US from enemy missiles.

While the plan was never put into effect, it remained a symbol of anti-communist feeling in the US.

Reagan Abandons Detente

Reagan giving speech initiating SDI.

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYGaMoyIVn4

~5:00 minute mark to 12 minute mark

Reagan Years-Cold War