History 22 marker on the end of the cold war
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- Created on: 14-02-19 15:42
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- End of the cold war 22 marker plan
- 1st paragraph
- during 1980s the cold war became more and more dangerous
- by the end of the 1980s the USA and the USSR were cooperating with each other (like1945)
- 2nd paragraph Reagan
- he increased military spending's they became so high that Americans struggled
- When Gorbachev came to power (Ussr) 1985 he withdrew from Afghanistan and ended the Brezhnev doctrine
- he became a more diplomatic leader
- he negotiated the 1987 intermediate nuclear forces treaty
- he made a speech in Berlin calling on Gorbachev to tear the wall down
- 3rd paragraph
- economy was looking up for the USA
- Ussr close to a total collapse
- Gorbachev knew Ussr could not keep up with the US spending because..
- living standards were so low
- corruption in communist party meant money was wasted
- millions were starving
- industries needed modernising
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- Paragraph 4
- resulted in Gorbachev realising that there needed to be political and economic change if USSR was to survive the cold war
- money was saved by ending the arms race
- people were made to speak about things which could be improved
- Paragraph 5
- Gorbachev's two main policies were...
- Glasnost
- Perestroika
- Perestroika was introducing more capitalist economic reforms
- Gorbachev's two main policies were...
- Paragraph 9
- Gorbachev knew he needed to cut defence spending
- 1986 he said he wanted to get rid of all nuclear weapons and abandon the Brezhnev doctrine
- Reagan and Gorbachev held summit meetings
- the 1987 intermediate nuclear forces treaty removed 4000 nuclear war heads and ended the star wars programme
- 19888 Gorbachev withdrew soviet forces from Afghanistan and other iron curtain countries
- president George bush meet Gorbachev in Malta in 1989 and they said that the cold war was now over
- Warsaw pact was being disbanded
- 1st paragraph
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