4/24: Global 10 - Periods 2,6,8

Aim 141

How did the growth of democracy and the failure of communism led to the slow ending of the cold war in the 1990s?

I.  Ending of Cold War
A. Communism began to have problems in nations around the world
B. Democracies began to support countries that would start a new democracy
C. Leaders also wanted to talk about problems more;  instead of trying to show their power
1. leaders were willing to compromise
D. Brinkmanship
1. using force and power to spread ideas
2. constant threat of nuclear disaster
3. stopped in the 1970s
E. Détente 
1. slow, gradual CALMING down
2. leaders in the US and Russia talked to each other
3.SUPERPOWERS tried to keep the world more calm.