Chapter 65 Outline

Outline:

CH 65 THE IRON HAND BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

TIME LINE

1957    1962

            Cuban Missile Crisis

Soviets test ICBMs

BERLIN WALL TIME LINE

1946    1948    1953    1957    1961    1963    1987    1989

                                                                                    Nov. 9:  Wall breached

.           .           .           .                                   Reagan:  Tear down this Wall

.           .           .           .                       Kennedy:  Ich bin ein Berliner

.           .           .           .           Wall erected; first Berliner murdered at the Wall

.           .           .           leaving East Germany is illegal

.           .           East Berlin uprising suppressed

.           Berlin Airlift

“Interzonepass” instituted

NAMES IN ORDER OF PRESENTATION

Strategic Rocket Force

IRBM:  Intermediate Ranged Ballistic Missile

MIRV:  Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle

Strategic Defense Initiative

Mutually Assured Destruction

Counter-value or Counter-force

Ministry of Medium Machine Building

Ministry of Radio Industry

Günter Litwin

General Wojciech Jaruzelski

Solidarity Union in Poland

OUTLINE

I.  Nuclear strategy in a bi-polar world

II. Soviets expand their nuclear missile program 1966-1969

“The military and strategic equilibrium prevailing between the USSR and USA, between the Warsaw pact and NATO, is objectively a safeguard of world peace.  We have not sought, and do not now seek, military superiority over the other side.  That is not our policy.”  Leonid Brezhnev, 1981

III. U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency:

            Successful evacuation                           25 – 35 million

            Successful evacuation, counter-value     70 – 85 million

            Failed evacuation, counter-value:                       100 million

IV. Ideologies meet at the Berlin Wall

V. Events leading to the fall of the Wall

            1963:  Kennedy:  Ich bin ein Berliner

            1987:  Reagan: Tear down this Wall

                        John Paul II: There is no freedom without solidarity!

            1989:   Jan.  Papal visit shakes General Jaruzelski

                        Sept.  Hungarians no longer patrol Austrian border

                                    DDR tourists visit Hungary and go to Austria

                        Nov. 9  East Berliners take hammers and spikes to breech the Wall

QUESTIONS

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