The Beginning of the End… Space Race – 1969

Apollo-Soyuz (1975) Vietnam (1973)

“Vietnamization” mixed with the “madman theory”

Nixon and Détente Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) At home, the emergence of the New Left

Reaction to “selfish” individualism Lack of faith in government

Foreign Policy in the 1970s Ford and Carter

Helsinki Accords, 1975 Camp David accords,

1978 Iran Hostage Crisis,

1979 SALT II, 1979 Soviet War in

Afghanistan, 1979-1989

Protesters in Tehran, 1979—Inventing America

(2006)

Ronald Reagan Staunch anti-

Communist Soviet Union as the “evil

empire” Arms race Strategic Defense

Initiative Summit talks

Geneva, 1985 Reykjavik, 1986 INF Treaty, 1987 Ronald Reagan at

Brandenburg Gate, June 1987

Collapse of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost Perestroika End of Soviet involvement in

Afghanistan Baltic States, Hungary and

Poland Berlin Wall—Nov 1989 Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania Democratic Czechoslovakia Soviet Union collapsed—Dec

1991

American Global Police Force

Legacy of the Cold War

Superpower status Troop

deployment Economic

sanctions International

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Role of “Difficult History” “Those who fail to learn from history

are doomed to repeat it.” –Winston Churchill

The “Long History” 1991 compared to 1918 and 1945