Cold War Ends (with review)

What was Gorbachev's 1980s policy of glasnost in the USSR?

• Strict laws against speaking
• Encouraged freedom in speech and governnment
• Anarchy and chaos
• American Rule over Russia

What happened to East and West Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall?

• They kept the same political system
• They unified into one democratic country
• They unified into one communist country
• They rebuilt the wall.

After the fall of the USSR, what did many parts of the former USSR do?

• Attempted to reestablish communism
• Break away from Soviet Union and become independent
• Establish their own communist government
• Change their economic system to the command economy system

After World War II, many Germans left East Germany to live in the more productive, democratic West Germany. How did the government of East Berlin try to contain defections from East to West Berlin?

• Improve conditions in East Berlin
• Allowed people to work in the West
• Allow them to leave as they please
• Build a wall to keep people from moving to west Berlin

What did the destruction of the Berlin Wall symbolize?

• the fall of communism
• the fall of capitalism
• the end of the Vietnam War
• the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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 democratic and West Germany was a dictatorship
• East Germany was Christian and West Germany was Muslim

Despite all the tension during the Cold War why didn't the US and the Soviet Union get involved in military conflicts with each other?

• pressure from nonaligned nations kept the peace
• the United Nation wouldn't let them fight
• the potential for global nuclear war
• increased tensions in the Middle East

The communist countries behind the Iron Curtain were known as _______ states. This name reflected their close location to and dependence on the Soviet Union.

• satellite

• local

• next door

• neighbors

Who were the two participants in the Space Race?

• The US and Cuba
• China and US
• The USSR and US
• US and North Vietnam

What is the time period of relaxed tension between the US and USSR?

• Massive Retaliation
• Sputnik
• Detente
• NATO