New thinking and the INF Treaty
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- New thinking and the INF Treaty
- Gorbachev as a leader
- Recognised that the economy was failing
- Recognised that the Soviet people were unhappy and distrustful of government
- Brought in glasnost (openness), meant more freedom for people to say what they really thought
- Foreign relations changed - more open and positive
- Desperate to get the Soviet Union out of the war in Afghanistan
- Was very slow to allow democratic elections in Soviet Union
- Tried to cover up the massive nuclear accident in Chernobyl
- Did not want capitalism, just a stronger socialism
- Never planned to cause end of Soviet Union
- Brought in perestroika (restructuring), meant new ways of doing things
- Reykjavik, Oct 1986
- Reagan and Gorbachev said they would work to cut down the number of nuclear weapons they had
- Gorbachev wanted an end to Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) - Reagan's plan to have satellites in space to destroy nuclear weapons, Reagan didn't agree to this
- INF Treaty, Dec 1987
- Diplomats continued the discussions from Reykjavik and came up with the INF treaty, signed in Washington
- INF stood for Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces - nuclear weapons with a 500-5500 km range
- Got rid of all 500-5500 km nuclear missiles each superpower had - better than SALT 1
- Largely applied to Europe, where most of these missiles were deployed
- Gorbachev as a leader
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