World history/WHME103/Cold War aftermath/Iron curtain

Reading

Mikhail Gorbachev addressing the UN General Assembly, 1988

Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What do the terms detente, perestroika and glasnost mean?

• What factors contributed to Gorbachev's desire to normalize international relations?

Steven Kreis, '1989: The Walls Came Tumbling Down', The History Guide: Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe, 13 April 2012.

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