Lesson 30 - The End of the Cold War

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty?

• USA and USSR were allowed to inspect each other’s missile bases in order to verify that the weapons had been removed and destroyed

• USA and USSR had to remove and destroy all European missiles with ranges of 300 to 3,400

• USA and USSR could test intermediate-range nuclear weapons only over the northern pacific waters

• It was a treaty between Gorbachev & Reagan

A movement that called for a moratorium (a halt) on the production, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons

• Nuclear Freeze Movement

• The Frozen War

• Nuclear Suspension

• Defense Deferment Movement

Support of anticommunist insurgents and movements worldwide; a harsher, more militant stance against the Soviet Union, and communism as a whole.

• Truman Doctrine

• NATO

• Reagan Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

A Reagan arms program, also sometimes referred to as Star Wars, that was founded to create a “missile shield” that would protect the United States from nuclear attack

• Sputnik

• The Underground Lair

• NASA

  (National Aeronautics & Space Administration)

• Strategic Defense Initiative

Match the following

• A reform program that aimed to restructure the Soviet economy

• Glasnost

• A policy that aimed to include citizens in the political process

  by granting them some freedoms

• centrally planned economy

• the government set prices and

  determined the supply and demand of goods

• Perestroika

• mass production of low-cost industrial apartment complexes

• Khrushchyovka

Who coined the phrase "Evil Empire"?

• President Reagan

• President John F Kennedy

• Head of State Mikhail Gorbachev

• The United Nations

Place the photos to tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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“General Secretary Gorbachev,” ​ (a)   spoke, “If you seek ​ peace , if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate​! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!” Reagan continued, commanding: “Mr. Gorbachev, ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   ​ (e)   !”​

• Reagan
• tear
• down
• this
• wall
• capitalism
• break
• gate
• destroy
• is

The command post exercise was designed to simulate a period of conflict escalation, culminating in the US military attaining a simulated DEFCON 1 coordinated nuclear attack. The realism of the exercise made the USSR believe nuclear war was eminent.

• Abel Archer 83

• DEFCON -1

• Arma 3

• Hearts of Iron IV

The Soviet government paid all workers ​ (a)   whether or not they reached their ​ (b)   . So Soviet workers had ​ (c)   ​ (d)   to work hard.

• equally
• quota
• little
• incentive
• proportionately
• sales goal
• huge