6.4 Ending on a relaxed note

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6.4 Ending on a relaxed note

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

After the Cuba Missle Crisis, Khrushchev and Kennedy realised they couldn't go on like this.....

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Hotline!
A direct line of communication between the presidents of the US and the SU that was used during the Cold War.

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Relaxed?
  • A more relaxed period of time begins in the Cold War.
  • However, both countries continue to develop advanced nuclear weapons. 
  • The SU and the USA start talking about reducing the amount of nuclear weapons, eventually signing the SALT I treaty. 
  • Yet tensions start to rise again when Ronald Reagan becomes president....
A treaty between the US and the SU that limits the number of long-range missiles that each country may have, 1972.

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Slide 5 - Video

Tensions
  • Ronald Reagan has little fate in the good intentions of the Soviet Union.  He launches the SDI project (AKA ''Star Wars'')
  • he SDI projects give the US an advantage and they start making nuclear weapons again. 
  • There are massive nuclear weapon protests in the Netherlands in 1981 and 1983.
  • Reagan says the SU will only disarm if they see the USA as the strongest. 

Slide 6 - Tekstslide


Star Wars


Technisch haalbaar, financieel volstrekt onhaalbaar

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

The Prague Spring
1968: The Prague Spring

Government (Dubçek) of Czechoslovakia wanted a reform-oriented course. --> ''Socialism with a human face''. He strove for a democratic and more liberal type of communism.

He got no space from Russia. At the end of August, troops of the Warsaw Pact put an end to this.

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Slide 9 - Video


The Cold War becomes less cold
Second half of the 80s

Slide 10 - Tekstslide


Why?


  • Reagan is reelected S US president in 1984: he can be a little bit kinder to the Soviet Union now
  • new leader for the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, wants to do it differently.


Slide 11 - Tekstslide

Problems in the Soviet-Union
  • The nuclear arms race costs a lot of money.
  • The treasury becomes emptier still when the country ends up involved in a hopeless civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan.
  • The communist economy has ground to a halt.

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Glasnost: openness

  • Perestrojka: economic reforms

  • Cutting back on military activities: fewer weapons, fewer soldiers.

  • So also fewer Soviet soldiers outside the Soviet Union

  • Remember this: as far as Gorbachev is concerned, the arms race is over. In any case, the Soviet Union is no longer involved.

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

Consequences
  • Gorbachev wants to have a better relationship with Western countries

  • Several important meetings happen between Reagan and the Gorbachev

  • Unilateral disarmament of the Soviet Union

  • Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

  • Remember this: Gorbachev wants his ideas to be implemented in other communist countries in Eastern Europe. These countries do not want, cannot and do not dare to do this.

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

Video


Reagan's Speech in West Berlin, June 1987

Slide 15 - Tekstslide

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Slide 16 - Video


Revolution Year 1989


The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

Slide 17 - Tekstslide

Causes
 
  • Gorbachev's ideas (glasnost, perestroika)...

  • ...clash with the old, ingrained, ideas of the Eastern European leaders...

  • ...but are popular with the people of those countries!

Slide 18 - Tekstslide

Hungary opens its border with Austria
May 1989



Many other inhabitants of Eastern European countries
flee to the West via Hungary.

This Eastern European leader does understand the ideas of Glasnost and Perestroika: he wants to give his people more freedom.

Slide 19 - Tekstslide


Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 9 1989

Slide 20 - Tekstslide

What is happening?

  • The people of East Berlin and Eastern Germany want more freedom and they want to open the border

  • ... but the Eastern German government absolutely does not want this!

  • Massive anti-government demonstrations in East Berlin


  • Also during the 40th anniversary celebration of the DDR, in October 1989

Slide 21 - Tekstslide


Gorbachev is the guest of honor...


...he does not come to celebrate, but to warn the leaders of Eastern Germany: the Soviet Union is no longer going to help when it comes to ending demonstrations.

Slide 22 - Tekstslide


Every evening there are demonstrations in Berlin



The pressure on the Eastern German government increases,
while the world press looks at the situation in East Berlin

Slide 23 - Tekstslide

Slide 24 - Tekstslide

Slide 25 - Tekstslide

Video

A look at the fall
of The Berlin Wall

Slide 26 - Tekstslide

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Slide 27 - Video

Then it goes fast...

Slide 28 - Tekstslide


Total collapse
of communism in Eastern Europe

  • November 6, 1989: Communist leader of Bulgaria is deposed.

  • November 28, 1989: The Czechoslovakian Communist Party relinquishes its power

  • December 25, 1989: The Romanian communist leader is executed

  • April 1990: Free elections in parts of Yugoslavia





Slide 29 - Tekstslide

Germany Reunited
October 3rd 1990

Slide 30 - Tekstslide

End of the Soviet-Union
December 25 1991

Slide 31 - Tekstslide

Happy ever after?

  • No, big and small problems arise in some parts of the former Eastern block.

  • Economic disadvantage of 'East Germans' compared to 'West Germans'

  • Some, not just people from Eastern Germany, had to get used to capitalism (about 65% thought communism was better)

  • Civil wars in Yugoslavia (1991-2001)

Slide 32 - Tekstslide