Unit 11: The Cold War
Topic 5: The End of the Cold War
Name: ______________________
Block ______________
Date: ________________
How does the Cold War Affect US at Home?
Closer to Home: Heavy military expenditures led
to a ___________________ but _____________
__________________________, especially the
___________________________ area where there
are air and naval stations. The ________________ is
in Virginia, plus many private companies that do
business w/ the military.
The US “Wins” the Cold War
 The US and NATO “won” the Cold War in part because our ____________ _____
__________________. The US could spend more money than the USSR on
____________ and_______________.

_______________ made this worse, and the US began to have internal divisions:
____________________ movement and the ____________movement.
 In the name of stopping Communism, the US supported many brutal and
_____________ govts. The US also helped to overthrow democratically elected
governments that were socialist or that were friendly with the USSR.
 Do you think this was justified to stop Communism?
Reagan and the End of the Cold War
 President ______________ is elected in 1980
and turns up the pressure on the Soviet Union
by challenging the legitimacy of Soviet system
(b/c it is not good to its citizens) and by
increasing military spending and economic
pressure.
 He asks Gorbachev to "__________________
_____________________" (literally, the Berlin Wall….but figuratively, the
_____________________)
Problems in the Soviet Union
1. Increasing Soviet ____________________________. Could not compete w/ the US.
2. Rising ___________________ of Soviet republics. They were tired of Soviet control.
3. Fast paced reforms -- Communism is _________________ and people wanted
economic opportunity and freedoms.
4. Soviet leader Gorbachev starts glasnost (__________________) and
perestroika (____________________________________) to reform Soviet society.