BOPA: 2/25/14Describe the most important events and the results of the Vietnam War in a few complete sentences.

End of the Cold War

To start class:Get out your Cold War paper from last class.

For each of the four sections draw a picture showing your understanding of how that topic relates to the Cold War.

Please draw three pictures for the SALT/Detente/Helsinki Accords section.

Soviets Invade Afghanistan

SALT TreatyStrategic Arms Limitation Talks- 1972

• Nixon & Brezhnev

• Limited the number of Anti-Ballistic Missile sites

Detente: NixonDétente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/detente/videos

Helsinki Accords: FordSignatories agreed to1. Respect state boundaries established after World War II

2. Abide by international laws3. accept a set of basic human rights for all people

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Star Wars:-Wanted to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in

order to prevent missile attacks from other countries-Did not happen because:

-Too expensive-We didn’t want to disrupt the detente we had formed with the USSR

http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/E49BAA3F-B671-4AEA-B992-29520B101299

Star WarsThe Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars,

was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. With the tension of the Cold War looming overhead, the Strategic Defense Initiative was the United States’ response to possible nuclear attacks from afar. Although the program seemed to have no negative consequences, there were concerns brought up about the program “contravening” the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks years before. For this reason, in conjunction with budgetary constraints, the Strategic Defense Initiative was ultimately set aside.

End of the Cold WarLT: I can explain how the Cold War ended.

Ping Pong Diplomacy: Nixon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJ4wh1kwR8

Mikhail Gorbachevnew reform-minded leader of the

Soviet Union, 1985glasnost (openness)perestroika (political and economic

reforms)

Ronald ReaganMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” – Ronald Reagan (1987 speech at

Berlin )Wallhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX00QkvK-mQ

Iron Curtain is Raised (1989-1991)1. Lech Walesa and Solidarity force elections in Poland2. demonstrators fill streets of Eastern European cities3. Berlin Wall falls (November 9, 1989)4. Gorbachev arrested by hard-line communists (coup d'état attempt)

5. defeat of coup leads all 15 republics of USSR to declare independence

6. December 25, 1991 – Soviet Union collapses7. re-unification of Germany

Homework:Monday, March 3: Review Guide dueFriday, March 7: Summative

Lech Walesa and Solidarity force elections in Poland

Berlin Wall Fallshttp://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall

Soviet Union CollapsesDecember 25, 1991In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union

disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II. Indeed, the breakup of the Soviet Union transformed the entire world political situation, leading to a complete reformulation of political, economic and military alliances all over the globe.