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

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

The Arab-Israeli conflict is essentially about...

• Ethnicity

• Historical perspectives

• Land

• Money

What is a Jewish country in the Middle East established in 1948?

• Israel

• Palestine

• Saudi Arabia

• Syria

This war is also known as Desert Storm and involved leader Saddam Hussein. He invaded Kuwait in order to capture it's valuable oil fields.

• Iraq War
• World War I
• Persian Gulf War
• World War II

Why caused the Persian Gulf War?

• The U.S was bombed by Saudi Arabia
• Iraq invaded Kuwait hoping to have control of the oil
• The Stock Market crashed
• The Japanese bombed North Korea

Why was OPEC created?

• To regulate the supply and price of oil
• to help the Palestinians in their problems with Israel
• to design new machinery to get oil out of the ground
• to keep countries that are not members from producing any oil