The End of the Cold War

One similarity in the histories of Germany and Vietnam is that both nations:

• remained nonaligned during the Cold War period

• were once divided but have since been reunited

• have chosen a democratic form of government in recent years

• were once colonized by other European nations

Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of perestroika and glasnost resulted in:

• an era of world peace and Soviet prosperity

• conditions that helped lead to the breakup of

  the Soviet Union

• a successful transition to a command economy in Russia

• censorship of the news media in Russia

What marked the end of the Cold War?

• the rule of Gorbechev

• the creation of Russia

• the breakup of the Soviet Union

• the building of the Berlin Wall

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.

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

After _____________ came to power in the Soviet Union, there was a dramatic end to the Cold War. 

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Vladimir Putin
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Leonid Brezhnev

Which of the following occurred during the Nixon and Reagan administrations? Select TWO (2) correct answers.

• signing of nuclear weapons reduction treaties

• entry into the Vietnam War

• higher tensions between the two superpowers

• lower tensions between the two superpowers

• increasing arms and space race

Which two leaders are credited with helping to end the Cold War? Select TWO (2) correct answers.

• Harry Truman

• Ronald Reagan

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev

{31.1 pg1} The United States & the Soviet Union became rivals after WWII because...

• the Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons.

• the Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe.

• Communists & Western capitalists distrusted one another.

• the United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states.

{31.1 pg1} Where did the Soviet army stay after WWII & set up pro-Soviet governments?

FOUR of these choices are correct.

• Poland

• Romania

• Bulgaria

• Hungary

• Greece