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Unit 11: Cold War to Present - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ideological divide between West (Capitalist) Europe, and East (Communist) Europe
- - - - Soviet reaction to Marshall Plan
      - Coordinate trade and industries of East European countries
      - Promote economic development and cooperation
      - Essentially functioned to stop spread of capitalism
      - Deepend divide between West and East in Europe
    - - Heavily aided by Marshall Plan funds, Western Europe had recovered economically by 1952
      - Western European nations formed European Communities
      - Allows for today's Eurozone
      - Aided Europe's further economic growth
      - First signed in 1947
      - Aimed to promote capitalism and international free trade
      - Reduced tariffs
      - Generated a lot of Wealth for Western Europe
      - Eastern Europe relied heavily on COMECON, so there was still a heavy divide in Europe
- - - - ended Cold War
      - two major reforms
        
        Glasnost
        
        Glasnost was political and cultural openness which allowed for freedom of press and expression, leading to more criticism of the government
        
        Perestroika
        
        allowed for more capitalism
        
        resulted in revolutions of 1989
      - didn't want to continue with Stalinsim
      - dissolved Soviet Union after Yeltsin's protest
    - - Solidarity
        
        In Poland, Solidarity, a political party that supported worker’s rights and political reform won, creating the first non-communist government in Eastern Europe
      - Velvet Revolution
        
        In Czechoslovakia, tens of thousands of people protested for free elections, leading to the commust government being overthrown.
    - - Soviet Union:
        
        Russia struggled to create a new capitalist economy in the 1990s
      - Yugoslavia
        
        Result of unsolved ethnic and religious tensions
        
        Collapsed into civil war
        
        Serbs “ethnically cleansed’’ muslims, basically put them in concentration camps
        
        War ended with NATO
        
        Bosnian War was first genocide since WW2, and first time NATO bombed former communist country in Europe
      - Czechoslovakia
        
        Velvet divorce
        Based on desire for national self determination among Czechs and Slovaks