Cold War - Part 4 (End of Cold War & Post War Policy)

President Ronald Reagan wanted to

• stop the spread of communism like presidents before him

• roll back communism and destroy it everywhere in the world.

Give the one that WAS NOT part of the Reagan Doctrine

• helping anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua

• increasing military spending in the U.S. including more nuclear weapons

• going to war again against the communists in Vietnam

• helping Afghanistan rebels fight again Soviet invaders.

• give U.S. money to human rights movements against communism in Eastern Europe

Reagan's Star Wars (SDI) plan was to

• use satellite to send nuclear missiles to the Soviet Union

• help resistance fighters on Naboo

• use satellite lasers to shoot down missiles before they hit the earth

• hire George Lucas on his defense team

The Soviet Union increased its military spending to develop a space defense shield like Reagan's Star Wars.

• True

• False

During Reagan's second term, he changes his position on the U.S.S.R. and

• drops a nuclear bomb on Moscow

• sends ground troops into the Soviet Union and kills its leader, Andropov.

• does nothing as communism takes over in West Germany

• wants to make peace with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and reduce nuclear weapons.

The nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl, USSR showed

• the incompetence of the Soviet system

• the power of the nuclear power of the USSR

• the power of Reagan's nuclear weapons to make a direct hit on a strategic site.

To promote the flow of ideas and information to improve Soviet society, Gorbachev enacted

• detente

• collectivization

• glasnost

• perestroika

What are examples of a democratic government rather than a totalitarian government? (Choose all correct answers)

• right to criticize the government

• right to choose leaders

• repression of political opponents

• government control of prices and supply

Perestroika was meant to

• improve the Soviet economy

• tighten government control over the media

• abandon treaties with the U.S.

• suppress nationalist independence movements on Eastern Europe

Why did revolution spread across Eastern Europe in 1989?

• Gorbachev loosened USSR control

• Gorbachev increased USSR control

• USSR wanted a smaller union

• Russian President Yeltsin demanded it.