1. RIGHT CORNER >: 1) Write: Name: _, Period: _,
Date: 04/23/12, Topic: End of Cold War
LEFT CORNER <: Write “Opener #26” and then:
1) Write 1 high+1 low in last 24 hours
2) Rate your comprehension for this
week’s material so far: lost<1-5>easy
3) Respond to the Opener by writing
at least 1 sentences about:
Your opinions/thoughts OR/AND
Questions sparked by the clip OR/AND
Summary of the clip OR/AND
Announcements: None

2. Agenda
1) Post Cold War Europe
End Goal, you will be able to…
1) What is Europe like today?
Reminder
1) Test Review

3. Cold War Review
USSR-Lenin>Stalin>5 Yr Plan>Sputnik>Afgh War
N Korea-Kim Il Sung>Kim Jong Ill>Kim Jong-un
China-Mao>Great Leap For>Cult Rev>Deng>$$$

4. Notes #25a, Title: “End of Cold War Notes”
1) 1970s-1980s: USSR Weakens:
a) Communist productivity stagnates
b) Warsaw nations ignore USSR more
c) Arms race (Reagan: Star Wars) + Afghanistan
bankrupting USSR
d) Oppression unsustainable

5. 2) Mikhail Gorbachev: Reforms to save USSR
a) Perestroika: Gov reform (embrace more
capitalism and less oppression)
b) Glasnost: Freedom of speech + poli critique
(Lenin >Stalin >Khrushchev >Brezhnev>Gorbachhev)

7. 3) 1989: Gorbachev lets
Warsaw nations set own
future
Poland: Solidarity Party
rises to oppose Polish
communist party
Hungary: Hungarians
allow to travel to NATO
Austria
East Germany: Citizens
tear down Berlin Wall
Romania: Communist
leader Ceauşescu cracks
down, citizens fight back

10. 4) 1991: USSR dissolves, Cold War over
5) Boris Yeltsin: 1st president (Putin 2nd pres)
6) Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS):
Former USSR nations agree to work together,
Russia strongest of CIS

11. 7) Results of Cold War:
a) Unemployment, shortages, inflation as ppl adjust
communism>capitalism (some make it, others
going is slow, organized crime grows)
b) Communist Party lives as a elected party
c) W. Ger pay heavy taxes to modernize E Ger
d) Feeling of inferiority, esp. in Russia
e) Nationalism + racism rises
f) Rise of EU: European Economic Community (1958,
Free Trade Org like NAFTA) > European Union >
(1993) common currency >
rejection of EU constitution
(2005) > Greek Crisis (2009)
NATO’s future role uncertain.

14. 4) World Today:
Capitalist Democracies: USA, Japan, S Korea
Capitalist Dictatorships (rule by one)/Oligarchies
(rule by few): UAE, Qatar, Russia (Putin)
Socialist Democracies: UK, France, Germany
Socialist Dictatorships/Oligarchies: China
Communist Democracies: Never achieved
Communist Dictatorships/Oligarchies: North
Korea, Cuba

15. Journ #41a, Title “End of Cold War”
1) Copy Source Title: Billy Joel
2…) Discuss questions on the board.

16. Activ #26a, Title “End of Cold War”
1) Copy Source Title: Goodbye Lenin
2…) Discuss questions on the board
with a partner. Summarize your
discussion (include their name at the
end). Remember participation points
are deducted if off task.
5 Reading/Film Qs Come From These Work Sections

19. Reflection #26 (place at the end of today’s work)
Pick the 1 most important thing you
learned today to share with your partner.
1) Write down the main idea of
today.
(include their name).
2) Summarize Mr. Chiang’s closing
remarks