End of the Cold War 1970s-1991

What is Détente?

• An easing of tensions

• increasing of military and weapons.

• Increased Tensions

• eliminating nuclear weapons

Why did the Soviet Union fear computers?

• They believed if they relied on computers, there would be risk of weapons failure for their military

• Fear of loss of political control and people gaining too much freedom

• They believed they would take over the world.

• They didn’t have the technology and education required to operate them.

What event ended the policy of Détente?

• Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty

• Invasion of Afghanistan

• The Carter Doctrine

• Iranian Embassy siege

What two policies did Mikhail Gorbachev adopt to try and save the Soviet Union? (click

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

• Berlin 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

The Strategic Defensive Initiative or SDI

• was a plan the United States developed as a nuclear defense system

• an idea proposed by the Soviet Union to limit the amount of work that needed to be done

• was scrapped by the British because the cost was too high

• was developed by the French as a way to increase their ability to make fresh backed goods

The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

Why did the United States establish diplomatic relations with China in the 1970s?

• to explore communism and welcome it into American life

• to isolate the Soviets between NATO and a hostile China

• to gain access to Chinese markets for American goods

• to attempt to bring down the Chinese leadership

Polish trade union who led the movement for democracy in Poland during the Cold War

• Solidarity

• Perestroika

• Księżniczko

• Glasnost

The U.S. helped aide him in a coup de’ tat of Salvador Allende, a democratically elected communist, in Chile.

• Augusto Pinochet

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Abdul Nasser

• Ayatollah Khomeini