4.4 The Iron Curtain is lifted

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4.4 The Iron Curtain is lifted

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

Learning goals 
How did the Cold War end

1. What changed in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev? 
2. What were the consequences of the changes in the Eastern Bloc 
3. How did the fall of the Berlin War affect Germany? 

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Unrest in the Eastern Bloc 
At first it looked like Germany never would unified ever again.

The differences in the economy were severe.

In Poland the first cracks in the Eastern Bloc started to appear. 

Striking for better pay and more freedoms. 

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Gorbachev 
Communism was failing 

  1. Losing the arms race with the US ( losing money) 
  2. Power abuse and corruption 
  3. Industrial and argicultural yields were below expectation 
  4. People were unhappy 
Queue for hours for basic commodities 

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Slide 5 - Video

The changes
Perestroika and Glasnost 
Perestroika - great change 
Permission for a partial market economy with small private companies 

Glasnost - Openness 
Permittance of freedom of speech and more say in the administration 

It led to food shortages which led to even greater dissatisfaction 
Signed two treaties, no more enemies in 1989

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

Hungary opens its border with Austria in May 1989.



Many other residents of Eastern European countries fled to the West via Hungary.
Deze Oost-Europese leider begrijpt wél de ideeën van Glasnost en Perestrojka: hij wil zijn volk meer vrijheid geven.

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

The total collapse of communism in Eastern Europe


November 16, 1989: The communist leader of Bulgaria is deposed


November 28, 1989: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia relinquishes power


December 25, 1989: The communist leader of Romania is executed


April 1990: Free elections are held in parts of Yugoslavia

Slide 8 - Tekstslide


Every evening, there are demonstrations in Berlin.










The pressure on the East German government increases as the world press watches the situation in East Berlin.

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

The fall of the Wall
For forty years the communist dictatorships in the East relied on the Soviet troops. 

Gorbachev withdrew all the troops in 1989 

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

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Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Slide 13 - Video

Map of Europe in  1989
Map of Europe in 2009
Soviet Union falls apart 

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

German Reunification
3 october 1990

Slide 15 - Tekstslide

German Reunification
  • Capital: Berlin.
  • Cost to West Germany: 900 billion.
  • There are still differences in the country.
  • Some countries were afraid of reunification.

Slide 16 - Tekstslide

End of the Soviet Union
25 december 1991

Slide 17 - Tekstslide

Slide 18 - Video

Slide 19 - Video