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Main Point - The communist economy of the Soviet Union was unable to compete against the capitalist economy of the United States
Main Point - The Soviet government was unable to survive in a society with free information.
Main Point - The Soviet economy was too dysfunctional to either be reformed or easily turned into a capitalist economy.
Homework# 6 - End of Cold War & Collapse of the Soviet Union
Homework# 6 - End of Cold War & Collapse of the Soviet Union
Reading on the Collapse of the Soviet Union - click here
Printable Copy of Homework Questions - click here
Source # 1 - Nixon and Khrushchev in the "Kitchen Debate" - click here
KitchenDebat.mpgSource # 2 - Fall of Berlin Wall - click here
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ColdWar-FallBerlinWall.mpgSource # 3 - Video about the Collapse of the Soviet Union - click here
ColdWar-EndSovietUnion.mpgClasswork Discussion - Images of the End of the Soviet Union
Classwork Discussion - Images of the End of the Soviet Union
Source # 1 - Photo From the "Kitchen Debate and Statistics on the U.S. and Soviet Economies and Military Spending
Source # 2 - Photographs of Soviet Stores
Source # 3 - Comparison of European Economies
(Note - Spain transitioned from fascism to democracy in 1973)
Source # 4 - Soviet Posters During Perestroika
Source # 5 - Cartoons about Gorbachev and Reforms
Classwork# 4 - Collapse of the Soviet Union
Classwork# 4 - Collapse of the Soviet Union
Diagramming Activity - Build a Process Diagram showing the collapse of the Soviet Union - A Process Diagram shows how a series of events are related in a "cause & effect" relationship. The picture to the right shows a process diagram.
The purpose of your diagram is to explain the reason the Soviet Union could not transition from a "closed society" into an "open society".
Specifically, your process diagram should have the following things mentioned in the process diagram:
Leonid Brezhnev
Nomenklatura
Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Chernobyl Disaster
Boris Yeltsin
End of Communism in Eastern Europe
Lithuanian Independence
Military Coup
End of Soviet Union
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