reagan & gorbachev

• what did reagan do to worsen the soviet economy

  he introduced a new policy in 1983 called the strategic defense initiative or star wars
• what did gorbachev introduce

  new thinking
• what was perestroika

  where the soviet state and economy should be reformed to include some of the practices that made capitalism successful
• what is glasnost

  there should be more openness and less corruption in the government, people shouldn't need to fear the state or fer expressing their opinions. basically allowing opposition to the government and give people a better understanding of how the country was run
• what would be dropped

  the brezhnev doctrine where the soviet union dominated over the satellite states and the west since the time of the prague spring, the soviet union would no longer get involved in the domestic affairs of other communist countries
• what would happen to afghanistan

  the ussr would reduce spending on arms and defence and withdraw from afghanistan
• how were relations between ussr and us after gorbachev introduced these reforms

  better, they both worked to end the cold war and reagan wanted to adopt a more open approach to the ussr whilst at the same time sticking to his overall aim
• what did both gorbachev and reagan sign

  the inf treaty in december 1987

  this was where both countries would abolish all land-based missiles with a range of 500-5,000 km
• what's perestroika?

  practices that made capitalism successful.
• what's glasnost?

  openness & less corruption in government; people shouldn't fear state or fear expressing their opinions
• • brezhnev doctrine was dropped
• • USSR spend less on weapons & withdraw from afghanistan
• | US response

  • reagan initially wanted to be more confrontational with USSR
  • gorbachev wasn't looking to expand communism but reform USSR & work to reduce tension with USA
  • reagan saw this as an opportunity to end cold war