End of Cold War Review

How did the U.S. support economic and educational reforms in some of the former communist countries?

• It developed a program to allow people from former communist country to defect to the U.S.

• It provided aid and assistance to former communist countries.

• It ignored the needs of former communist countries.

What was the term 'iron curtain' used to describe the division of?

• North and South Vietnam

• East and West Asia

• North and South Korea

• Communist East and Democratic West

What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal

• England and France

• Germany and Italy

• United States and Soviet Union

What is the purpose of N.A.T.O?

• Countries joining together to end democracy

• Countries joining together to stop trade between the East and West

• Countries joining together to fend off attacks by other communist countries

• Countries joining together to create one kind of currency (S)

Which event directly contributed to the end of the Cold War?

• Several communist-based governments collapsed across Eastern Europe

• The United States increased military aid to South Vietnam

• The Marshall Plan

• Senator McCathy's trials rooting out suspected communists

During the Cold War, which event happened last?

• Launching of SPUTNIK

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Airlift

• Destruction of Berlin Wall

What did the destruction of the Berlin Wall symbolize?

• the fall of communism, end of the Cold War and reunification of Germany

• the fall of capitalism

• the end of the Vietnam War

• the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

Glasnost is best characterized as

• a form of re-Stalinization

• a restructuring of the economy

• a form of central planning

• a form of political freedom and openess

He instituted Glasnost and Perestroika

• Gorbachev

• Stalin

• Lenin

• Breshnev