The End of the Cold War

This product includes a Power Point and Printable Student Notes. Also, if you don’t want to teach this material through a presentation, there is a reading guide worksheet to do instead. Likewise, there is an extra vocabulary worksheet included. The items come in Microsoft and PDF formats. The content covered is as follows:

The End of the Cold War

The Cold War, USA, Russian Soviet Union (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), the Korean War, Communism, China, 38th Parallel, 17th Parallel, Democracy, Richard Nixon (1913-1994), realpolitik, Mao Zedong (1893-1976), détente, Moscow, Russia, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Treaty (SALT I), intercontinental ballistic missiles, Vietnam War, Vietcong, Gerald Ford (1913-2006), Vietnamization, guerrilla warfare, the Helsinki Accords, the Helsinki Final Act, SALT II, Jimmy Carter (1924-present), Afghanistan, the Mujahideen, Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Star Wars, Central America, Nicaragua, Contras, Iran, Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury, Iran Contra Affair, embargo, Boland Amendment, the General Secretary of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-Present), glasnost, openness, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), nuclear weapons, the collapse of the Soviet Union, President George Bush Sr. (1924-2018), Berlin Wall, Li Peng (1928-Present) Premier of China, Tiananmen Square Protests in Beijing, Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), and MORE!!!

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