The Fall of the Communist World

The Soviet-Afghan war

  1. The afghan rebels were called the Mujahideen. The U.S supported the afghans to contain communism from spreading.
  1. The soviet union supported the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

  1. the war occurred on dec 24, 1979
  1. The soviets invaded afghanistan because there was a rebellion by the Mujahideen
  1. The war made the soviet military look weak and not invincible
  1. The U.S responded by giving aid to the Mujahadeen
  1. The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ended the war because it was so costly in troops and in money

Perestroika and Glasnost

Fall of the Berlin wall

The Fall of the Soviet Union

  1. They had free speech, can open businesses
  1. Citizens could open businesses and more productivity in factories was rewarded
  1. Glasnost means "openness"
  1. Soviet satellites could elect their own governments
  1. Gorbachev wanted to reform the soviet union.
  1. Mikhail Gorbachev came into power in 1985
  1. 1989, open borders between the Soviet union and the west
  1. 1990, germany officially reunited
  1. 1987, Ronald Reagan gave a speech for Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the berlin wall
  1. The speech from Ronald Reagan and the beginning of the collapse of the soviet union
  1. The wall symbolized the oppressive nature of the soviet union
  1. The wall collapsed on November 9, 1989
  1. The Berlin Wall was built to prevent people from the soviet union defecting to west berlin

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  1. Perestroika and Glasnost backfired because small doses of capitalism didn't work with the communism russia had

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