2. The beginning of the end
Mao Zedong and Nikita
Khrushchev had different
opinios of how to manage
the socialism. They ended
with alliance. The Sino-
soviet split
3. Richard Nixon sees the moment
After Mao Zedong
break down the alliance
with the Soviet Union,
Nixon decides to
approach an alliance
with China. Also, Nixon
and Brezhnev sign the
Salt 1 Treaty. A treaty
that leads to reduce the
nuclear power
4. Jimmy Carter to the
power
Carter were less flexible
than Nixon. However he
signs the Salt Treaty II,
that also helped to reduce
nuclear weapons. But
tension between the
countries increases,
compared with Nixon´s
stance
5.
6. Reagan and Gorbachev
1983: President
Reagan proposes
Strategic Defense
Initiative
He increased defense
spending, negotiated
a nuclear arms
reduction agreement
with the Soviets and
is credited with
helping to bring a
quicker end to the
Cold War.
1985: Mikhail
Gorbachev ascends to
power in Soviet Union
Gorbachev, would
oversee the most
fundamental changes
to his nation since the
Russian Revolution.
7. A weak USSR (GLASNOST-PERESTROIKA)
Soviet oil production falls
steeply from 1987 onward.
economic aid to Soviet
satellites
need for political and
economic restructuring was
imminent.
Soviet troops withdraw from
Afghanistan
new era of transparency and
openness, or glasnost, began
under the rule of Gorbachev.
8. The shadow of the communism. The era
stagnationThe Berlin Wall falls and
the communist party
losses. East-germany
and West-germany get
united.
Communist governments
fall in Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, and Rumania.
Reagan and
Gorvachev
reduce their
armaments
9. The end The warsay pact was
over
Belavezha Accords
declare the USSR
dissolved
USSR pulls out its
nuclear and
conventional forces
from Warsaw Pact
nations.
USSR implemented
capitalist ideals
USSR had ethnic and
nationalities problems
