4.3 The Iron Curtain Falls

The Iron Curtain falls
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The Iron Curtain falls

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Iron Curtain
* Churchill 
* Iron Curtain -> Boundry between 
* Democratic/capitalist West  <-> Communist East

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Berlin Wall
* Closed gap in the Iron Curtain
* Fled through Berlin to West Germany
- Dissatisfied with communism
- Freedom and welfare
* Symbol of the Cold War

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Resistance against communism
* No freedom
* Planned economy 
* Critical people punished 
* Spied on

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East Germany
Planned economy
West Germany
Free market economy

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East Germany
Trabant (2 collors)
West Germany
Volkswagen and BMW

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Butcher selling meat products

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Rebellion rose

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1. Hungarian students rose up against communist control

* 1956
* Reaction: Warsaw pact reintroduces strict communist regime

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2. Communist leaders in Czechoslovakia began allowing more freedoms

* 1968
* 'Prague Spring'
* Reaction: Warsaw Pact sent tanks

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3. Polish workers set up a non-communist trade union

* 'Solidarity'
* 1980
* Mass movement demanding reforms
* Reaction: Polish government suppressed the rebellion

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Gorbachev
* Leader of SU 1985
- Not enough money for arms race
- Economy stayed behind the West
* Prevent communism from collapsing
* Reforms

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Gorbachev's reforms
1. Reconstruction the economy -> Perestroika
* small privately-owned companies
* No state companies

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Gorbachev's reforms
2. More openness in governemnt -> Glasnost
* Freedom of speech
* Political parties allowed

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Gorbachev's reforms
3. Less aggressive foreign policy
* Treaty with US 1987
* Limiting nuclear weapons
* More freedom for countries 

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Clip Speech Poetin

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Assignments
Make the assignments of paragraph 4.3

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Fall of communism
* Reforms accelerated the downfall of cummunism
* People wanted more freedom and democracy
* 1989 Hungary opened the Iron Curtain

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East Germany
* Demonstrations
* Free elections
* Freedom to travel
* November 9, 1989 -> Berlin Wall opened
* Communist government collapsed

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German reunification
* Fall of the Berlin Wall
* Germany reunited
* East Germany could benefit from the West

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Fall of Soviet Union
* More countries wanted freedom from the SU
* 1991 the end of SU
* Planned economy -> free-market economy
* Political and cultural freedom increased
* Democratic elections

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Vladimir Putin
* 2000 came to power
* Slowely reversed the political freedoms

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