The diplomatic initiative to relax Cold War tension around the globe was

• the policy of detente

• the Brezhnev doctrine

• the Warsaw Pact

• the Pentagon Papers

In an effort to promote the flow of ideas and information to improve Soviet society, Mikhail Gorbachev implemented the policy of

• détente.

• glasnost.

• brinkmanship

• SALT

The policies of perestroika and glasnost were turning points in Soviet history because they led to

• war between Argentina and Great Britain

• ethnic conflict in the Balkan states.

• decreased tension with the United States

• European intervention in Afghanistan.

Who as the Soviet Union's leader who instituted the policies of perestroika and glasnost

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

Which of these events led to the breakup of the Soviet Union?

• The arms race & government overspending

• An attempt to overthrow the government by pro-democratic forces

• Democratic reforms brought on by Mikhail Gorbachev

• All of these

The Berlin Wall divided _______________ into two parts.

• Europe

• Berlin

• Russia

• Germany

• the world

Nuclear arms limitations were part of the the

• SALT agreement

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• ICBM accords

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 Soviet Union officially fell in

• 1991

• 1992

• 1989

• 1990

The leaders who both, for different reasons, could be seen as causing the end of the Cold War would be 

• Kennedy and Khruschev
• Truman and Stalin 
• Nixon and Bhreshnev
• Reagan and Gorbechev