History Cold War

• Explain one consequence of Hafizullah Amin’s coup in Afghanistan

  Consequence it led to the Afghan war which was expensive for USSR-$8 billion a year

  
  

  Led to increased support for Mujahedeen
• Explain one consequence of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan


  End of detente USA led boycott of 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow which 60 other nations participated. Marked start of the second Cold War and not able to agree to SALT 11
• Write a narrative account of the events of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979

  1)Amin staged coup in September 1979-murder of Prime minister Taraki

  2)Mujahadeen wanted to overthrow Amin and declare jihad (holy war)

  3)Amin went into talks with USA which alarmed USSR

  4)24TH December Brezhnev ordered 50000 troops to invade

  5)Amin assassinated on 27th December

  6)Replaced by Babrak Karmal who was loyal to USSR
• Explain one consequence of the presidency of Ronald Reagan

  P-Increased tensions between super powers

  E-Reagan Doctrine was passed providing anticommunist groups with military support

  A-Demonstrated weakness of Soviets, America proved dominance
• Explain one consequence of the election of Ronald Reagan

  P-Increased spending on the arms race

  E-SDI were satellites with powerful lasers to shoot down soviet missiles and prevent from harming USA

  A-USSR not strong enough to make that level of investment, it highlighted how powerful USA were
• Explain one consequence of the Reagan Doctrine

  P-Goal to defend and nourish freedom and democracy

  E-Military support for anti communist groups in Nicaragua, Angola and Afghan rebels

  A-Increased spending on anti communist groups could cause difficulty for USSR
• Explain one consequence of Gorbachevs new thinking

  P-An improve in relations

  E-Glasnost policy of openness, transparency and reconsttruction of state and economy

  A-Ideology started to grow more similar
• Explain one consequence of Gorbachev new thinking

  P-The Brezhnev doctrine being dropped

  E-USSR would no longer intervene in domestic affairs of other communist countries and withdraw from Afghanistan

  A-Decrease in communist influence
• Explain one consequence the end of the Brezhnev doctrine

  P-Impact on Soviet control and challenged communist control

  E-Glasnost led to criticism and protests, Velvet revolution overthrowing communist government in Czechoslovakia, Ceausescu is overthrown in Romania

  A-Lost buffer zones, political authority lost
• Explain one consequence of the Washington summit

  P-Agreement to reduce spending,December 1987

  E-Signing of the INF(intermediate Range nuclear force treaty) abolish all land missiles with a range of 500-5500km

  A-Knew USA would not abandon SDI so had to try make a different agreement
• Write a narrative account analysing the collapse of the Soviet Union by 1991

  1)Gorbachevs new thinking-reconstrucTion of economy, policies in line with capitalism, criticism of government

  2)Communist rejected by satellite states-free elections held, Czechoslovakia overthrow communist government(1989) and communist Romanian leader executed

  3) Collapse of Berlin Wall-was a symbolic end of cold war in November 1989

  4)Dissolution of Warsaw pact-Poland ,Hungary, East Germany reject communism, pact no longer served purpose and USSR couldn‘t find it

  5)Opposition of Gorbachev in USSR which tried to remove glasnost and perestroika(1991) which damaged Gorbachev’s authority

  6)Collapse of the Soviet Union-25th December, Gorbachev resigned, Soviet republics joined and took advantage of Gorbachev weakness