Unit 8 Review

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

• crash & burn

• Tear down this wall

• openness & restructuring

• democracy & capitalism

Who was the last Soviet premier (leader)?

• Boris Yeltsin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Borat Sagdiyev

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 Reagan administration rapidly increased spending on

• social programs.

• the American military.

• support of the Soviet Union.

• enlargement of the federal government.

Who was India's colonial ruler

• France

• Britain

• Germany

• United States

Who was the leader of Indian independence

• Gandhi

• Jinna

• Neru

• Buddha

Partition separated which countries from one another?

• India & Nepal

• Bhutan & Bangladesh

• India & Pakistan (and later Bangladesh)

• America & Britain

After serving for 27 years, Nelson Mandela was released from prison in: 

• 1989

• 1990

• 1992

Who became the first black president in South Africa?

• Nelson Mandela
• Barack Obama
• FW de Klerk
• Winnie Mandela

The policy of strict racial separation and discrimination that was implemented in the Republic of South Africa is called

• collectivization

• apartheid

• intifada

• communism