AMSCO 662-665

Politics in Eastern Europe during the 1980s and 1990s is BEST characterized by which of the following?

• increasing challenges to Communist control

• increasing military presence of the Soviet Union

• consolidation of Communist party dominance

• a return to absolute monarchy

The Soviet Union collapsed

• during the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev

• under a military coup

• when the nation declared bankrupcy

• when the Russian federation split from the Union

Which of the following is NOT a result of the end of the Cold War?

• growing tensions between the US and Russia

• treaties limiting the number of nuclear weapons

• ethnic tensions increasing in former communist nations

• US dominance of international politics