Topic 7.6 Review: End of the Cold War

⭐ Which TWO (2) events could be considered the start of the Cold War?

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Korean War

• The division of Germany and Berlin

• The dropping of atomic bombs

Which country, in 1948, controlled the ZONE that the entire city of Berlin was located in?

• Soviet Union

• Great Britain

• France

• United States

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• to keep East Germany from becoming a communist satellite

• to protect Berlin from invasion by the Soviet Union

• tp prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany

• to stop communist spies from infiltrating West Berlin

What was the purpose of the foreign policy of detente?

• To ensure that Cuba did not turn into a communist country

• To develop more ICBM's

• To find out which country is the strongest in the cold war

• To encourage more diplomatic discussions and relax tensions

Which of the following resulted from the policy of detente during the Nixon and Reagan administrations? Select TWO (2) correct answers.

• signing of nuclear weapons reduction treaties

• entry into the Vietnam War

• higher tensions between the two superpowers

• lower tensions between the two superpowers

• increasing arms and space race

Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of the Soviet Union resulted in:

• an era of world peace and Soviet prosperity

• conditions that helped lead to the breakup of the Soviet Union

• a successful transition to a command economy in Russia

• censorship of the news media in Russia

After _____________ came to power in the Soviet Union, there was a dramatic end to the Cold War.

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Leonid Brezhnev

All of the following were direct results of independence movements in Eastern Europe EXCEPT:

• Germany joined with the Soviet Union to fight off resistance movements

• the Berlin Wall was torn down and Germany was united into one country

• the Communist party was overthrown in Hungary

• Citizens began demanding changes and political rights in the Soviet Union

Which two leaders are credited with helping to end the Cold War? Select TWO (2) correct answers.

• Harry Truman

• Ronald Reagan

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev

What event symbolizes the end of the Cold War?

• U.S. President Bush worked toward easing tensions

• The Soviet Union broke up into 15 independent republics

• People in Easter Europe were gaining more freedom

• The Berlin Wall was built