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Period 9: 1980-Present, Topic 3- The End of the Cold War

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Why is this historic/important?

Collapse of the USSR

Why did this happen?

Tiananmen Square

How did China compare or contrast to the Openness or Restructuring of the USSR?

Student learning objective: Explain the causes and effects of the End of the Cold War.

What caused the end of the Cold War?

Lack of ______________ in the USSR

Lack of ______________ in the USSR

Bad ______________ in the USSR

Overemphasis on ______________

______________ problems in the USSR

______________ problems in the USSR

What was a new strategy leaders like Nixon and GHW Bush used regarding foreign policy?

What did Reagan's administration do to cause the end of Communism in the USSR?

How did Gorbachev's Perestroika and Glasnost policies backfire?

“By the end of the Clinton administration it was clear that U.S. foreign policy had no overarching framework as it did during the Cold War. Rather, each of the two immediate post-Cold War presidents, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, was unsure how to address the emergence of ethnic conflicts and civil wars and the humanitarian and human rights crises that accompany them. The result was the emergence of policies that were inconsistent and often opaque. . . .

“From the start of the Cold War, American presidents based U.S. foreign policy on fighting that war with the hope of ‘winning.’ . . . The Cold War provided a framework and clear guidelines for foreign and military policy. In the post-Cold War period, U.S. foreign policy has been guided largely by the need to respond to the most pressing crisis or conflict.”

Joyce P. Kaufman, political scientist, A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy, published in 2006

Discussion Question #1- What is an argument made by Kaufman?

Discussion Question #2- What caused the historical development explained by Kaufman?

Discussion Question #3- What is a limitation with Kaufman's argument?  Or what is the counter-argument?


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