Death of the Soviet Union

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Death of the Soviet Union

• Chapter 32

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Vocab Words

• Coup
• Hostility
• Reunification
• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• Commonwealth
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Boris Yeltsin
• Lech Walesa

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More Open Leaders in Soviet Union

• Mikhail Gorbachev leader in 1985
• Change from military focus to consumer
• GlasnostOpenness-more freedom of press
• PerestroikaRestructuring of business

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Signs of Friendliness

• 87 Signed treaty w/US to eliminate intermediate
  range missiles (INF)
• 89 Brought home soldiers from Afghanistan
• Stopped supplying arms to communist Sandinista
  leaders in Nicaragua
• Pressured Fidel Castro to bring home Cuban troops
  from Angola

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GlasnostOpenness

• Free elections allowed-many political parties not
  just communists
• Republics of Russia wanted to govern themselves
  or outright independence like Latvia, Estonia and
  Lithuania
• Downside is that ethnic turmoil increased
• Perestroika businesses more independent, joint
  US-Soviet businesses like McDonalds permitted
• Attempted coup (takeover) by old timers failed

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1991 Commonwealth Begins

• Soviet Union disbanded
• 15 independent nations formed
• 11 form a Commonwealth- an alliance
• Boris Yeltsin President of Russia-largest nation,
  calls for end of communism
• 92 - George Bush and Boris Yeltsin end Cold
  War
• Life still tough in whole area

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Satellite Nations Change Too

• Hungary since 1956 wanted independence
• Czechoslovakia since 1968 was trying to be more
  independent of Russia
• Poland-started Solidarity Union in 1980-led by
  Lech Walesa-wanted better wages
• 82 Solidarity was outlawed
• 89 legalized Solidarity, elections, winner
• 90-East Germany non-communist
• Bulgaria and Romania changed too

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Symbol of Oppression Torn Down
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Yugoslavia has a hard time adjusting

• 6 republics Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia,
  Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro
• 30 nationalities
• Many religions 41-Eatern Orthodox, 32 Roman
  Catholic, 12 Muslim
• Ethnic groups fight for control Croatia-between
  Croats and Serbs-91-6000 dead
• Serbia-Muslim 44-wanted independence while
  Eastern Orthodox Serbs 34opposed