8.8, End of the Cold War, Heimler, AP World

The Cold War ended because:

• the U.S. banned the WARSAW Pact

• The Soviet Union's failed invasion of Afghanistan

• Public discontent in the Soviet Bloc

• The Soviet Union won the war

__ was the nickname for the Strategic Defense Initiative announced by Ronald Reagan

• Star Wars

• Space Wars

• Space Force

• Security Shield

The SDI program wasn't actually possible because:

• the technology didn't yet exist

• it was too expensive

• U.S. public discontent uncomfortable with plan

• public ridicule of plan in the Soviet Union

By the early 1980's _ had 12,000 nuclear missiles.

• the U.S.

• the Soviet Union

• the U.S. and the Soviet Union combined

• China

The Soviet Union invaded _ in order to replace the leader with a communist ruler.

• Afghanistan

• Pakistan

• Turkemistan

• Kazakhstan

The Soviet Union was unable to take control from Amin because _.

• the war became too expensive due to guerilla tactics used against them in the wilderness

• the people in the Soviet Union wanted out of the expensive war after 3 years of fighting

• the United Nations banned the Soviets from further acts of war

• economic sanctions

The Soviet Union suffered economically from _.

• extremely limited foreign trade

• government control of industry

• an inability of farmers to choose their crops and sell at prices they chose

• rebellions in Turkey

• droughts and and famine in the mid 80's

The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia _.

• were mass protests in Czechoslovakia

• resulted in independence for the Czechs

• lasted a decade, and ended in a stand-off

• discouraged further rebellions

Mikhail Gorbachev _.

• was a more liberal president in the Soviet Union

• was a more conservative dictator in the U.S.S.R.

• was the last modern czar of Russia

Perestroika _ in the Soviet Bloc.

• allowed some free enterprise

• closed free trade

• encouraged freedom of religion

• discouraged peaceful protests