End of the Cold Wave

The Cold War was fought between the United States and

• China
• France
• Soviet Union
• Germany

The Cold War was a war of ideas between 

• Communism and Fascism
• Communism and Totalitarianism
• Democracy and Fascism 
• Communism and Democracy

 The single most important reason the U.S. engaged in the Cold War was to 

•  prevent the communist takeover of East Berlin
• stop the spread of terrorism
•  limit the development of nuclear weapons
• stop the spread of communism

After _____________ came to power in the Soviet Union, there was a dramatic end to the Cold War. 

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Vladimir Putin
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Leonid Brezhnev

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, ______________ became the first president of the Russian Republic 

• Leonid Brezhnev
• Boris Yeltsin
• Vladimir Putin
• Alexei Kosygin

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

What is glasnost?

• Strict laws against speaking
• Encouraged freedom in speech and governnment
• Anarchy and chaos
• American Rule over Russia

What year did the Berlin Wall come down?

• 1991
• 1975
• 1992
• 1989

Which was NOT a reason for the Fall of the Soviet Union?

• Nationalism in the Soviet Block
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• U.S. defeat of Russia
• Soviet Economic Collapse

Why did Gorbachev wish to reform?

• He wanted to go down in history
• He knew that Russia's expenditure on arms was unsustainable
• He was a capitalist at heart
• He was secretly working for the West