PDF-[BOOK]-The Collapse of the Soviet Military

In this important book a distinguished United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West General Odom asserts that Gorbachev saw that dramatically shrinking the military and the militaryindustrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perestroika and that his efforts to do this led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Student: Cristina- Daniela FERARU. Coordinator: . prof. .. Arkadiusz K. OTLINSK. I. Polkowice. , Poland . 2013. Introduction. . On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Dean Acheson: foreign policy advisor . Soviet Union posed a threat to U.S. security. Shaped policy to contain communism. The Chill Sets in…. Soviet Sacrifices: +20million citizens killed in WWII and vast amounts of agricultural & industrial capacity. 73 - 44 B.C.. The Collapse of the Republic. Spartacus, a . Thracian . gladiator, escapes and leads a slave revolt through the Apennine mountains.. The Collapse of the Republic. After nearly 3 years of ravaging the countryside, Spartacus is captured by . Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe. Cold War Predictions. Why did the Soviet Union “lose” the Cold War?. Why did Communism collapse inside . Russia?. Remember:. Deterrence...led to?. “The Rise and Fall of World Communism”. 1917 - Present. The Cold War:. Nuclear Standoff & Third World Rivalry. The Arms Race. Race to create and amass the most nuclear weapons. Atomic and hydrogen bombs. Cold War . The state of hostility, without actual warfare, that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its origins as World War II was ending is a subject of controversy among historians. . 1964- 1982 Brezhnev Era. Very Repressive. Corruption High. Complaints against regime led to imprisonment. . Factors weakening the USSR. Afghanistan War 1979-1989.. Economic Stagnation. Corruption. 1985- 1990 Gorbachev Era. “The Rise and Fall of World Communism”. 1917 - Present. The Cold War:. Nuclear Standoff & Third World Rivalry. The Arms Race. Race to create and amass the most nuclear weapons. Atomic and hydrogen bombs. VUS.13d. Both internal and external pressures caused the collapse of the Soviet Union . The collapse of the Soviet Union . brought an end to the Cold War . that had dominated American . foreign policy for forty years!. SPONGE:. Please put ALL notes/books away!!!! There is ABSOLUTELY NO TALKING!!!!. Find Someone Who Has…... Matching Review . Please put ALL notes/books away!!!! There is ABSOLUTELY NO TALKING!!!!. Some students will be given words or dates (BLUE PAPER).. “The Rise and Fall of World Communism”. 1917 - Present. The End of Communism. General Failures of Communism. Economic failures. By late 1970s = communist economies showed no signs of catching up to more advanced capitalist countries. Which state was created by the U.N. as opposed to an independence movement?. Israel. What is apartheid?. Segregation system in South Africa. What areas discussed in class gained independence through violent revolution?. Direct communications (phone) established. Kennedy’s ‘. Pax. Americana’. What kind of peace do we seek? Not a . Pax. Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war….I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces.. In this important book, a distinguished United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. General Odom asserts that Gorbachev saw that dramatically shrinking the military and the military-industrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perestroika and that his efforts to do this led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.