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Tutorials
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Morning TimelineOverview(of all ofUSHistory)
Expansionof the US(MapReview)
PracticingShort-
AnswerQuestions
Afternoon TimelineOverview(of all ofUSHistory)
Expansionof the US(MapReview)
PracticingShort-
AnswerQuestions
Extra DBQPrep &Practice
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Kennedy
• Cuba – 1959 – Fidel Castro leads
Communist revolution in
Cuba – 1961 – Kennedy orders Bayof Pigs invasion, which fails
– 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis:
Nikita Khrushchev (SovietPremier) places missiles inCuba, nearly starting war
• 1961 – Khrushchev orders
construction of Berlin Wall
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Détente
• Nixon makes surprise visit to China (1972)• Carter officially normalizes relations with
China (1979)
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Détente
• Nixon negotiates 2 arms reduction treaties withSoviet Union: – SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
– ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)• Carter negotiates SALT II but Senate doesn’t ratify
it when USSR invades Afghanistan
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Reagan & the Cold War
• Ronald Reagan (GOP),elected 1980, staunchly anti-Communist, calls SovietUnion the “evil empire”
• supported military build-up &new missile defense system
(SDI = Strategic DefenseInitiative, called “Star Wars”)• supported Mujahedeen
Taliban – fighting againstUSSR in Afghanistan
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Iran-Contra Scandal
• Reagan sold weapons to Iranin exchange for release of
American hostages (violated
arms embargo)• Money from sale funneled to
“Contras” – guerillas fightingthe socialist Sandinistagovernment in Nicaragua
• Violated Boland Amendment – made it illegal for US to help
overthrow Sandinistas
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End of the Cold War
• New Soviet Premier: MikhailGorbachev, with new ideas – glasnost: more political freedom
– perestroika: restructuring economy• Reagan develops close
relationship with Gorbachev,calls on him to tear down BerlinWall
• 1989: Gorbachev allows protestsin Eastern Europe Berlin Wall
falls
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Check for Understanding: True orFalse?
• Johnson invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.• Nixon and Kissinger supported détente
with Communist powers.• Carter pushed the US to ratify the SALT II
Treaty.
• Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative wasa success.
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Critical Questioning