| When did Gorbachev get into power? | 1985 |
| What was Perestrokia? | Restructuing, breathe new life into the economy and encourage new ideas |
| What was Galsnot? | Openness, allowed freedom of speech, end of punishing critics of the goverment, |
| What was discussed in Geneva 1985? | Reducing weapons in stockpiles and ending the war in afganistan. |
| What did Gorbachev say in his speech to the UN in december 1998? | Announced massive cuts in Soviet weapons and forces stationed in EE, signaled the end of the Brezhnev doctirine |
| What did Gorbachev speech mean for EE countries? | They had to sort out their on domestic opposition without the interfeence and help from Moscow |
| What happened after Gorbachev's annoncments? | Hungary openned it bourders to allow movement into austria breaking the iron curtian
Solidarity won votes in poland |
| What was teh Baltic chain? | Formed on black ribbon day, international day of protest against human rights violations in the USSR. non violent protest |
| When was the Baltic chain? | August 1989 |
| How long was teh Baltic chain and how many people were involved? | 2 million people
675 kilometers |
| What was annoncced on the 9th of November 1989? | Berliners could move across the checkpoint without passpoers or a permit, Egon Krenz (e german leader) had read the doccument wrong and consequnce was enormous |
| How many Berliners corssed the bourders? | 2 million |
| When was the Berlin wall pulled down? | 9th Niv 1989, pull down the wall and the 28 years of seperation had ended |
| What did Regan do in 1980? | Boycotted the Moscow olyimpics and the Soviet's boycotted the Los Angles olymipics in 1984 |
| What did Regan create? | Strategic Defene Initiative (SDI). The star wars programme, shoot down ICBMs in flight by using satellites, people doubetd if it was possible |
| What was difference about Regan's stance to USSR? | 'the second cold war' realtionship deteriorated suddenley and sharply, Soviet plane shot down a korean passenger and American critisim was so hostile that some ppl thought that they might launch a nuclear attack. |
| What was Brezhnev 5 year plan? | The baisis of communist economies
Government decides whats needed for the population and by stetting targets for production
No private business. |
| What did Ronald Regan and Margret Thatcher decide? | That the US weapons could be kept in the UK, added greater pressure to the soviet union and allowed the NATO to land first strike in europe |
| What happened in december 1991 ? | Communism started to disintergrate inside the USSR and seperate republic's made up the union |
| Difference between USSR view to Gorbachev and the rest of the world? | Lost in the Russian elections, many people hated him bc he killed the soviet empire, making them loss land
But in the west, he was given a nobel peace prize in 1990 |
| When does Ukraine declare independnce ? | July 1990 |
| When does Georgia declare independence? | April 1991 |
| What happened in the USSR in August 1991? | Pavlov, Gorbachev prime minister and other plotters held Gorbachev prisoner in his holiday home, sent tanks to streets of Moscow.
People opposed the military coup, coup collapsed, Boris Yeltsin emerged as the leader of this opposition. |
| What happened on the 25th of December 1991? | Admit that the USSR was finished, annonced his resignation and end of the soviet union. |
| When does Boris Yeltsin elected for president
Of Russia? | May 29th 1990 |
