Week4

FalloftheBerlinWall(1989)
AftertheColdWarbegantothawoutinNovember91989,theSovietruledEasternGermany
madeadecisiontoreuniteandopenaccessofEasternBerlintoWesternBerlin.Andsincethat
declaration,U.SPresidentRonaldReagan(19811989)wenttoBerlininJune1987tocelebrate
the750thanniversarysinceitswasfoundedanddeclaredaspeech,Mr.Gorbachev,Tear
downthiswall!,(DeconstructingHistory:BerlinWall1:53)After2years,thousandsofwestern
andeasternBerlinclimbedontothewallandstartedtoteardowntheWall.InOctober3,1990,
westernandeasterberlinwasreunitedafteralmost30yearslatersinceitsconstructionin
August131961.Approximately29yearstobeexactwheremillionsoffamiliesweresplitapart
baseonthiscreationofthiswall.Thehistoricalsignificanceofthisistheremainderofanartifact
oftheBerlinWall,thesymboloftheColdWarandhowitcametobebaseonSovietAggression
andtheirprotectionoftheirnationalism.Manypiecesofthewararestoredasartifactsallover
theworldremindingusofthehistoryandoftheColdWarthatdrovetothiscruelaround46
yearodysseyofWarbaseontheU.SandtheSovietrelatedrelationsstartstothawoutafter
theystartedtocooperatewitheachother.

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ReagainSpeech:TearDownThisWall

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Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)- 1983

The Strategic Defense Initiative or known as Star Wars was created based on the U.Ss fear of
Soviet Union base on the build up of nuclear weapons and the fear of an soviet airstrike . This is
known as Mutual Assured Destruction or MAD ,a plan to ensure U.Ss survival of Soviets attack.
Its consisted of three phases that , a global miista ballistic defense orbiting low around Earth's
atmosphere that launched non-nuclear interceptors that intercepts Soviet ICBM missiles from
hitting the U.S where the other two phases where the second defense destroys ICBMs that enter
the first layer and and ground level that destroys missiles that enter through the second layer.
This is significant based on U.S and Soviet relations are stressed since the Soviets started making
more nuclear weapons like the Hydrogen bomb, the atomic bombs and later the nuclear missiles
almost lunahcign the world into nuclear war base on the Cuban Missile Crisis. This caused the U.S
to be weary of their rival superpower and tale k precaution heightening the Cold War tensions.

Ronald Reagan Star Wars

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Collapse of the Soviet Union

Since the death of Stalin, Soviet Leadership began to fluctuate where the leaderships changed
from leader to leader until it reached Mikhail Gorbachev who decided to put reforms into the
Soviet Union in 1985. The Reforms of perestroika and glasnost, free speech and small private
business bloomed to help reform the Soviet Unions economy and society. However, it brought a
change to the Soviet Union where he started to ease the armed race when he signed the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that help relieve tension with the US. But in the
end, contributed to its downfall. Since the new reforms, nationalism of states began to rise
within the 14 other Soviet controlled republics. Then Lithuania decided to declare its freedom
causing Gorbachev to use violence to stop the involving 14 deaths and hundred wounded. Since
Gorbachev's view and reforms are leading to disaster causing popularity to rose to Boris Yeltsin
where he later was elected to become president of the Russian Federation. However, Gorbachev
and Yeltsin weren't the only rivals, deep resentment from the old Russian regime wanted to end
the reforms and bring back the old powerful regin and their powerhungirness and their fear of
losing their own prower speed up their determination to usurp power from Gorbachev. On
August 19 1991, the coup d'etat began where Gorbachev was detained in his own home where
they demand that Gorbachev resigned his position and they went to Moscow to to usurp the
power however, they were stopped when Yeltsin declared a speech where influenced the

people. The old regime known as the hardliners order their men to attack the Parliament building
but were reused caused the them to withdraw their troops. This attempt of coup d'etat failed
causing the Soviet Union to fall as well where the 15 soviet Republic broke up from the their own
independence. This caused Yeltsin and other leader of republic to create a reform the
Commonwealth of Independent States where Baltic republics like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania did
not join with Georgia. The Soviet Union was no more. This is significant between U.S and Soviet
Union relationship base on Soviet being more successful and their communist ways to spread
however end base on their instability of making reforms that seem to democratic involving U.Ss
democratic ways that cant be coexisting with one another.

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