Which of the following would be identified as a cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union?

• The expensive arms race in the USSR became an enormous burden on the struggling economy

• The Soviet government used their military strength to put down any resistance

• The United States promised to provide economic assistance to the Soviet Union if they broke up

• Winston Churchill coordinated Operation "Sea Lion"

He instituted Glasnost and Perestroika

• Gorbachev

• Stalin

• Lenin

• Breshnev

Which event directly contributed to the end of the Cold War?

• Several communist-based governments collapsed across Eastern Europe

• The United States increased military aid to South Vietnam

• The Marshall Plan

• Senator McCathy's trials rooting out suspected communists

Nuclear arms limitations were part of the the

• SALT agreement

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• ICBM accords

This US president helped to bring a "thawing" to the end of the Cold War by developing a relationship with China

• Nixon

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Reagan

President Nixon was the first US president in history to visit

• The Soviet Union

• The United Kingdom

• The Republic of North Korea

• Canada

The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

The Strategic Defensive Initiative or SDI

• was a plan the United States developed as a nuclear defense system

• an idea proposed by the Soviet Union to limit the amount of work that needed to be done

• was scrapped by the British because the cost was too high

• was developed by the French as a way to increase their ability to make fresh backed goods

The Berlin Wall fell in

• 1989

• 1988

• 1990

• 1991

The Soviet Union officially fell in

• 1991

• 1992

• 1989

• 1990