cold war notes

• What was the USA's reaction to Krushchevs ultimatum?

  Eisenhower considered his request a way to force the USA out of Berlin and allow him to spread communism freely across Europe.
• Dubcek's aims

  • Allow Czech public to express their opinion about communism
  • Allow Czech public to raise concerns about their government without facing punishment
  • Provide Czech public with a better quality of life
• Ronald Reagan's first term as president

  1981-85
• glasnost- openness, a policy introduced by Gorbachev to allow more freedom in discussing problems in the ussr.
• perestroika- restructuring, a policy introduced by Gorbachev to allow changes to the way communism worked.