The End of the Cold War

What was Detente?

• The cooling-off period in the 1970s

• a new nuclear weapon

What was SALT I & II

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties: limited the number of nuclear missiles each country could have.

• The end of the Cold War.

What is one event that ended Detente?

• When the Berlin Wall was destroyed.

• When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

What is one Internal problem of the USSR?

• Economic Inefficiency

• Too many missiles

• The US beat the USSR hockey team.

What were TWO of the USSR reforms?

Pick two answers.

• Communism

• Perestroika

• Totalitarianism

• Glasnost

What was Glasnost?

• More Freedom of speech, press, and religion

• Limits on what people could do.

What was Perestrokia?

• The plan to invade Afghanistan.

• More free markets and private businesses

What did President Regan do?

Pick Two answers.

• Increases military spending

• Tax cuts & reducing government

• Went to war with the USSR.

• Ended the Cold War.

Eventually what happened to the USSR satellite nations?

• Became an extentsion of the USSR.

• They broke away from the USSR and became their own countries.

What were the results of the Cold war?

Pick three answers

• Berlin Wall was torn down & Germany reunited.

• Communist rule was overthrown across Eastern Europe.

• The USSR becomes more controlling.

• America wins the Cold War and is the only remaining superpower.