End of the Cold War

1985 - New Soviet leader ________________ initiated new policies including glasnost and perestroika.

• Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladimir Putin

Glasnost means "openness" in allowing free and honest discussion of __________________ problems.

• economic

• military

• political

Perestroika referred to restructuring of the Soviet _____________.

• economy

• government

• military

When communist governments began to ease travel restrictions, many ___________ fled to Austria through Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

• East Germans

• Russians

• West Germans

East Germans also began public protests against their own government to allow free passage into _______________________ (something they had not been able to do since 1961).

• Poland

• the United States

• West Germany

Soon after allowing free passage to the west, the _____________was torn down and Germany was reunified.

• Berlin Wall

• Great Wall

• Iron Curtain

The Soviet Union's declining economy forced them to cut _________________ spending and led to the loss of power to keep their satellite nations under their control.

• agricultural

• military

• welfare

1989- U.S. President ________________ and Mikhail Gorbachev jointly announced the end of the Cold War.

• George Bush

• Bill Clinton

• Ronald Reagan

February 1990 - The _______________ Party lost almost all of its power in the Soviet government.

• Communist

• Democratic

• Republican

December 1990 - The ____ was dissolved and officially ceased to exist.

• UN

• USSR

• XFL