End of the Cold War

What do Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost & Perestroika mean in English?

• crash & burn

• Tear down this wall

• openness & restructuring

• democracy & capitalism

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

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 Strategic Defensive Initiative or SDI

• was a plan the United States developed as a nuclear defense system

• an idea proposed by the Soviet Union to limit the amount of work that needed to be done

• was scrapped by the British because the cost was too high

• was developed by the French as a way to increase their ability to make fresh backed goods

The Berlin Wall fell in

• 1989

• 1988

• 1990

• 1991

During the Reagan administration, the federal deficit (debt)

• was eliminated because of implementation of the Great Society.

• decreased dramatically because of budget cuts.

• increased dramatically because of military spending.

• was somewhat reduced.

The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

Reagan’s foreign policy called for

• making an alliance with the Soviet Union.

• limiting American intervention in the affairs of other nations.

• protecting the island of Cuba from invasion.

• taking on a strong anti-communist role in the world.

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a missile treaty in hopes of?

• Reducing tensions associated with the threat of nuclear war

• Providing an exchange of weapons for war hostages

• Allowing secret weapons technologies to be shared

• Establishing an official cease-fire

The Soviet Union officially fell in

• 1991

• 1992

• 1989

• 1990