AH8.2 The End of The Cold War

What defense system did President Reagan propose that would use lasers to shoot down enemy missiles?

• SDI

• ICBM

• DEFCON

• NORAD

President Reagan’s close relationship to which Soviet leader would marked growing cooperation between America and the Soviet Union and would be a major step in ending the Cold War?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladimir Putin

With which nations did the United States secretly and illegally trade weapons with despite having an embargo against that nation?

• Cuba

• Iran

• Iraq

• Soviet Union

What conspiracy during the Reagan administration provided funding for anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua by secretly selling missiles to an embargoed nation and diverting that money back to the rebels?

• Watergate

• Whitewater

• Iran-Contra

• Tiananmen

What structural symbol of the Cold War did the citizens of Germany destroy in 1989?

• Kremlin

• Red Square

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

What event marks the end of the Cold War?

• launch of Sputnik

• end of the Berlin blockade

• SALT I

• breakup of the USSR