4.3 The Iron Curtain Falls part 2

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The Iron Curtain falls

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Gorbachev

* Leader of SU 1985

- Not enough money for arms race

- Economy stayed behind the West

* Prevent communism from collapsing

* Reforms

Gorbachev's reforms

1. Reconstruction the economy -> Perestroika

* small privately-owned companies

* No state companies

Gorbachev's reforms

2. More openness in governemnt -> Glasnost

* Freedom of speech

* Political parties allowed

Gorbachev's reforms

3. Less aggressive foreign policy

* Treaty with US 1987

* Limiting nuclear weapons

* More freedom for countries 

Fall of communism

* Reforms accelerated the downfall of cummunism

* People wanted more freedom and democracy

* 1989 Hungary opened the Iron Curtain

East Germany

* Demonstrations

- Free elections

- Freedom to travel

* November 9, 1989 -> Berlin Wall opened

* Communist government collapsed

German reunification

* Fall of the Berlin Wall

* Germany reunited

* East Germany could benefit from the West

Fall of Soviet Union

* More countries wanted freedom from the SU

* 1991 the end of SU

* Planned economy -> free-market economy

* Political and cultural freedom increased

* Democratic elections

Vladimir Putin

* 2000 came to power

* Chosen president

* Slowely reversed the political freedoms

Putin

* Unite the whole Russian world -> Oekraïne

* Restore the honor of Russia -> Soviet Union

*  No NAVO next to Russian boarders

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