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3/30/2016

Ending the Cold War (1960 1989)

Key Terms:
dtente an easing of tensions
embargo ban on trade

Tutorials
Monday
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Afternoon Timeline
Overview
(of all of
US
History)

Tuesday
Timeline
Overview
(of all of
US
History)
Expansion
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(Map
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ay
Expansion
of the US
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Thursday
Practicing
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Practice
Questions

Kennedy
Cuba
1959 Fidel Castro leads
Communist revolution in
Cuba
1961 Kennedy orders Bay
of Pigs invasion, which fails
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis:
Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet
Premier) places missiles in
Cuba, nearly starting war

1961 Khrushchev orders

construction of Berlin Wall

Dtente
Nixon makes surprise visit to China (1972)
Carter officially normalizes relations with
China (1979)

Dtente
Nixon negotiates 2 arms reduction treaties with
Soviet Union:
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)

Carter negotiates SALT II but Senate doesnt ratify

it when USSR invades Afghanistan

Reagan & the Cold War

Ronald Reagan (GOP),
elected 1980, staunchly antiCommunist, calls Soviet
Union the evil empire
supported military build-up &
new missile defense system
(SDI = Strategic Defense
Initiative, called Star Wars)
supported Mujahedeen
Taliban fighting against
USSR in Afghanistan

Iran-Contra Scandal
Reagan sold weapons to Iran
in exchange for release of
American hostages (violated
arms embargo)
Money from sale funneled to
Contras guerillas fighting
the socialist Sandinista
government in Nicaragua
Violated Boland Amendment
made it illegal for US to help
overthrow Sandinistas

End of the Cold War

New Soviet Premier: Mikhail
Gorbachev, with new ideas
glasnost: more political freedom
perestroika: restructuring economy

Reagan develops close

relationship with Gorbachev,
calls on him to tear down Berlin
Wall
1989: Gorbachev allows protests
in Eastern Europe Berlin Wall
falls

Check for Understanding: True or

False?
Johnson invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
Nixon and Kissinger supported dtente
with Communist powers.
Carter pushed the US to ratify the SALT II
Treaty.
Reagans Strategic Defense Initiative was
a success.

Critical Questioning