End of the Cold War

After World War II, many Germans left East Germany to live in the more productive, democratic West Germany. How did the government of East Berlin try to contain defections from East to West Berlin?

• Improve conditions in East Berlin
• Allowed people to work in the West
• Allow them to leave as they please
• Build a wall to keep people from moving to west Berlin

What is Détente?

• An easing of tensions

• Increased Tensions

What event ended the policy of Détente?

• Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty

• Invasion of Afghanistan

• The Carter Doctrine

• Iranian Embassy siege

What did the destruction of the Berlin Wall symbolize?

• the fall of communism
• the fall of capitalism
• the end of the Vietnam War
• the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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

During the Cold War, which event happened last?

• Launching of SPUTNIK
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Airlift
• Destruction of Berlin Wall

Which of Gorbachev's programs created more openness, more public participation in government, and greater individual rights were given to Soviet citizens?

• glasnost

• perestroika

• democratizatsiya

• shock therapy

What did NOT lead to the collapse of the USSR?

• the growth of resistance movements

• the policies of Mikhail Gorbachev

• the failures of communist economic systems

• the creation of the United Nations

Who was the leader of Solidarity in Poland?

• Lech Walesa

• Joseph Stalin

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Putin