World Changes - Part 1

After the Cold War, the United States focused less on containing communism and more on fighting _____________.

• enemies

• terrorism

• capitalism

• inflation

Who won the 1980 presidential election?

• Harry S. Truman

• Bill Clinton

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Ronald Reagan

Reagan's promises to the American people included helping the US economy and and being tougher with the Soviet Union against communism.

• True

• False

One of Reagan's most famous policies was his focus on building up the country's ___________.

• economy

• court systems

• defenses

• weapons

SDI stands for...

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Strategy Development Industry

The purpose of the SDI was to destroy Soviet missiles while they were still in space.

• True

• False

Another name for SDI was...

• Star Trek

• Stars and Stripes

• Starry Nights

• Star Wars

The Soviet secret police was known as...

• CIA

• FBI

• KGB

• NYPD

Who replaced Leonid Brezhnev as the leader of the Soviet Union?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Kruschev

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

Reagan and Gorbachev created an agreement to reduce the number of ________ ________ in each country.

• long range missiles

• nuclear weapons

• military personnel