The End of the Cold War

Who was the last Soviet premier (leader)?

• Boris Yeltsin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Borat Sagdiyev

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

Glasnost is best characterized as

• a form of re-Stalinization

• a restructuring of the economy

• a form of central planning

• a form of political liberalization

The Berlin Wall fell in

• 1989

• 1988

• 1990

• 1991

The Soviet Union officially fell in

• 1991

• 1992

• 1989

• 1990

Lyndon Johnson was known for his involvement in programs to help

• build up the nuclear arms stockpile against the USSR

• end the Cold War

• give opportunities to the poor and minorities

• the American space program flourish as NASA became powerful

The Berlin Wall was constructed to stop movement of people between East & West Germany.  What was the main difference between the two countries?

• East Germany was communist and West Germany was democratic and capitalist
• East Germany was a free state and West Germany was occupied by Europe
• East Germany was domcractice and West Germany was a dictatorship
• East Germany was Christian and West Germany was Muslim

The process in which East and West Germany were joined together and Berlin was a single city was called ____.

• German Combination
• Reunification of Europe
• Reunification of Berlin
• Reunification of Germany

Detente is a time of easing tensions or strained relations especially between two nations.

• True

• False

While presidents Ford and Carter both worked with the Soviet Union to continue Nixon's arms reduction talks, President Reagan took a "hard line" calling the Soviet Union the

• "axis of evil"

• "evil empire"

• "epitome of evil"