4.4 End of the Cold War: PRESENTATION


The End of the Cold War

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The End of the Cold War

lesson 4.4

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What changes did Gorbachev initiate?


What happened to the Berlin Wall?






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important people 1989
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader
USSR
Ronald Reagan
president
USA
Helmut Kohl
chancellor
West Germany

Erich Honecker
dictator
East Germany

WEST
EAST

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Living with the Wall
pictures from 1986

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The fall of the Berlin Wall
November 9th,  1989

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1985
  • he Soviet Union has a new Leader:
Michael Gorbachev
He has different ideas:

  • Arms race is too expensive / no more support for GDR.

  • There needs to be more openness (glasnost).

  • - There must be reforms (perestroika). For example, more private companies.

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What's the situation?
  • People of East Berlin and East Germany want more freedom and open the borders.

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

  • Massive anti-government demonstrations in East Berlin

  • Also during the 40th anniversary of the GDR

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Gorbachev is guest of honor...
  • ...but didn't come to celebrate, but to warn the leaders of East Germany:
  • the Soviet Union will no longer help to put down demonstrations

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Important: Gorbachev wanted to REFORM communism in the S.U. , not abolish.





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There are demonstrations every night
  • Pressure on the East German government mounts as the world press looks at the situation in East Berlin

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Video: Tagesschau of November 9, 1989
with the press conference of Günter Schabowski
One of the party leaders of the GDR states, hesitatingly:
"We have decided that every GDR citizen can cross the border.
That applies - as far as I know - ... from now on...?"

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German reunification
October 3rd, 1990

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