Section 1: Updates
-1989: George Bush inaugurated as US president. Skeptical of Gorbachev.
-Both Bush & G. don’t anticipate much.
-Khrushchev’s 1956 suppressing has regained autonomy in Soviet bloc.
-Poland is developing (Walesa free from prison, etc.)
-June election lets Solidarity win.
-G. allows SU elections. China is having political change issues (Deng Xiaoping).
-Deng orders 1989 crack-down, many die.
-Hungarian authorities take down Austrian border barbed wire.
-3,000 E. German asylum-wanters go to Prague.
-Romanian dictator meet with G. in Kremlin.
Section 2: Kohl/Gorbi/Bush
-“Gorbi, make love, not walls!”
-Berlin wall came down… Kohl was leading (W. Germany) and East Germans are demanding.
-Bush/Kohl persuade G. to accept together-Germany with NATO.
Section 3:
-G. is loved in many countries. He chose love (Machiavelli) and kept outside his country.
-Lenin had organized Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. No one thought Russia would break up.
-Baltics may secede.
-Yeltsin is not popular internationally. Bush goes to Moscow in July to sign START I.
-G. thinks things are petty.
-Yeltsin abolishes Communist party.
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