apush 3_30 ending the cold war

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Tutorials

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday

Morning TimelineOverview(of all ofUSHistory)

Expansionof the US(MapReview)

PracticingShort-

AnswerQuestions

Afternoon TimelineOverview(of all ofUSHistory)

Expansionof the US(MapReview)

PracticingShort-

AnswerQuestions

Extra DBQPrep &Practice


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Kennedy

• Cuba – 1959 – Fidel Castro leads

Communist revolution in

Cuba – 1961 – Kennedy orders Bayof Pigs invasion, which fails

– 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis:

Nikita Khrushchev (SovietPremier) places missiles inCuba, nearly starting war

• 1961 – Khrushchev orders

construction of Berlin Wall


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Détente

• Nixon makes surprise visit to China (1972)• Carter officially normalizes relations with

China (1979)


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Détente

• Nixon negotiates 2 arms reduction treaties withSoviet Union: – SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

– ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)• Carter negotiates SALT II but Senate doesn’t ratify

it when USSR invades Afghanistan


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Reagan & the Cold War

• Ronald Reagan (GOP),elected 1980, staunchly anti-Communist, calls SovietUnion the “evil empire”

• supported military build-up &new missile defense system

(SDI = Strategic DefenseInitiative, called “Star Wars”)• supported Mujahedeen

Taliban – fighting againstUSSR in Afghanistan


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Iran-Contra Scandal

• Reagan sold weapons to Iranin exchange for release of

American hostages (violated

arms embargo)• Money from sale funneled to

“Contras” – guerillas fightingthe socialist Sandinistagovernment in Nicaragua

• Violated Boland Amendment – made it illegal for US to help

overthrow Sandinistas


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End of the Cold War

• New Soviet Premier: MikhailGorbachev, with new ideas – glasnost: more political freedom

– perestroika: restructuring economy• Reagan develops close

relationship with Gorbachev,calls on him to tear down BerlinWall

• 1989: Gorbachev allows protestsin Eastern Europe Berlin Wall

falls


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Check for Understanding: True orFalse?

• Johnson invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.• Nixon and Kissinger supported détente

with Communist powers.• Carter pushed the US to ratify the SALT II

Treaty.

• Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative wasa success.


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Critical Questioning

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