Sample
Summaries after sample
, U5: The end of the Cold War 1989 U4: Areas of conflict and competition
The fall of the Berlin Wall 1989: between the Superpowers in the Cold War
The arms race:
• When Hungary opened its border with Austria, 50 000 East
Germans fled to the West within 3 weeks. • The arms race was a competition for nuclear
• Large anti-government protests broke out in East Germany - supremacy, driven by the belief that more weapons
East German soldiers refused to shoot protesters, and meant more power.
Gorbachev refused to send in Soviet troops to help. • The USA developed the B52 bomber, capable of flying
• On 9 November 1989, border guards gave up and allowed 9 600 km.
people to cross. • The USSR focused on building larger, more powerful
• bombs.
M2: The
•. • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) - by the 1960s,
The fall of the Soviet Union 1991: Nuclear Age
• both sides possessed enough ammunition to destroy
Sample • Gorbachev introduced freedom of press/speech
and allowed citizens to earn their own livings.
• Boris Yeltsin rose to power, eventually telling
and the Cold
War (B)
the world multiple times, creating a stalemate where
any attack would result in total mutual annihilation.
• The superpowers held the Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks (SALT I in 1973 and SALT II in 1979) to limit
Gorbachev to step down.
Summaries after sample • Most Soviet republics declared independence, and
•.
Yeltsin officially announced the end of the Soviet
Union on 26 December 1991.
Division of Germany, 1946 and the
•
•
nuclear technology and weapons in space.
The space race:
• building of the Berlin Wall, 1961:
•. • 1961 - Yuri Gagarin became the first human in
• • Following WWII, Germany was divided into 4 occupation zones controlled by space aboard Vostok 1.
Britain, France, the USA, and the USSR. • 1969 - Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew
• Britain, France, and the USA merged their zones to form West Germany - successfully landed on the moon.
capitalist democracy. • The intense competition cooled by 1975 with the
• The Soviet zone became East Germany - communist state. Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - a joint mission where
• On 13 August 1961, Soviet leader Khrushchev ordered the construction of a US and Soviet spacecraft docked in orbit.
barbed-wire barrier to stop the exodus of citizens. •
• The barrier evolved into a concrete wall 43 km long between East and West
Berlin and stretched for 156 km around the entire perimeter of West Berlin.
•
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Summaries after sample
, U5: The end of the Cold War 1989 U4: Areas of conflict and competition
The fall of the Berlin Wall 1989: between the Superpowers in the Cold War
The arms race:
• When Hungary opened its border with Austria, 50 000 East
Germans fled to the West within 3 weeks. • The arms race was a competition for nuclear
• Large anti-government protests broke out in East Germany - supremacy, driven by the belief that more weapons
East German soldiers refused to shoot protesters, and meant more power.
Gorbachev refused to send in Soviet troops to help. • The USA developed the B52 bomber, capable of flying
• On 9 November 1989, border guards gave up and allowed 9 600 km.
people to cross. • The USSR focused on building larger, more powerful
• bombs.
M2: The
•. • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) - by the 1960s,
The fall of the Soviet Union 1991: Nuclear Age
• both sides possessed enough ammunition to destroy
Sample • Gorbachev introduced freedom of press/speech
and allowed citizens to earn their own livings.
• Boris Yeltsin rose to power, eventually telling
and the Cold
War (B)
the world multiple times, creating a stalemate where
any attack would result in total mutual annihilation.
• The superpowers held the Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks (SALT I in 1973 and SALT II in 1979) to limit
Gorbachev to step down.
Summaries after sample • Most Soviet republics declared independence, and
•.
Yeltsin officially announced the end of the Soviet
Union on 26 December 1991.
Division of Germany, 1946 and the
•
•
nuclear technology and weapons in space.
The space race:
• building of the Berlin Wall, 1961:
•. • 1961 - Yuri Gagarin became the first human in
• • Following WWII, Germany was divided into 4 occupation zones controlled by space aboard Vostok 1.
Britain, France, the USA, and the USSR. • 1969 - Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew
• Britain, France, and the USA merged their zones to form West Germany - successfully landed on the moon.
capitalist democracy. • The intense competition cooled by 1975 with the
• The Soviet zone became East Germany - communist state. Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - a joint mission where
• On 13 August 1961, Soviet leader Khrushchev ordered the construction of a US and Soviet spacecraft docked in orbit.
barbed-wire barrier to stop the exodus of citizens. •
• The barrier evolved into a concrete wall 43 km long between East and West
Berlin and stretched for 156 km around the entire perimeter of West Berlin.
•
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