The Cold War Thaws

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The Cold War Thaws

• Chapter 17-5

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I. Life after Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev became leader after Stalin
• Desalinization purging country of Stalins
  memory
• Satellite countries still unhappy

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II. Changes in the War

• 1970s
• During Nixon administration Brinkmanship turns to
  Détente
• Détente lessened Cold War tensions
• Nixon visits China and USSR

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III. Reagan Administration

• Reagan moves towards more hostilities in the
  1980s
• Star Wars strategic defense initiative
• Tensions increased but a transfer of power in the
  USSR brought about beginning of final thaw

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III. Gorbachev - 1982

• Moves toward democracy
• Glasnost openness
• He encouraged Soviet citizens to discuss ways to
  improve their society
• Perestroika economic restructuring
• Poland and Hungary reform

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Berlin Wall Comes Down - 1989

• Germany reunifies

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v. Problems in the USSR

• Boris Yeltsin becomes popular among the
  Hard-Liners as Lithuania challenges the Soviet
  Union
• Communist party turns on Gorbachev but the people
  protest
• Communist party falls apart
• Soviet Union collapses

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VI. China