End of Cold War

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

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

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

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.

What marked the end of the Cold War?

• the rule of Gorbechev
• the creation of Russia
• the breakup of the Soviet Union
• the destruction of the Berlin 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

The Soviet Union officially fell in

• 1991

• 1992

• 1989

• 1990

What is glasnost?

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

Perestroika is...

•  Khrushchev's policy of aggression w/ U.S. 
• Gorbachev' policy of reform and restructuring
• Russian term for admiration of a comrade 
• Capital of Sudetenland

What year did the Berlin Wall come down?

• 1991
• 1975
• 1992
• 1989

Which was NOT a reason for the Fall of the Soviet Union?

• Nationalism in the Soviet Block
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• U.S. defeat of Russia
• Soviet Economic Collapse