Space Race, and the Fall of Communism

Why was America worried about Russia's satellite launch?

• They thought that if Russia could launch a satellite into space, then they could serville the US

• They thought the satellite was really a nuclear bomb

• They thought that Russian spies had stolen American satellite secrets

• They thought Russia would use the satellite to spy on America

In 1958, President Eisenhower created ________, a federal agency dedicated to space exploration.

• IAU

• FBI

• NASA

• CIA

The Soviet Union launched ________, the worlds first artificial satellite, into the Earth's orbit in 1957.

• Sputnik

• Explorer I

Why were protestors gathered at Tiananmen Square in 1989?

• They were mad at the military

• For freedom to open their own business

• To ask for freedom of religion

• To protest the corrupt Communist government

This image represents :

• Great Leap forward

• Long Marh

• Tiananmen Square massacre

• Cultural Revolution

What was the Policy of Openness under Gorbachev

• Perestroika
• Glasnost
• NEP
• Collectivazation

Tick the following industries that were privatised by Thatcher during her time in power. (4 correct ticks!)

• British Petroleum

• British Broadcasting Corporation

• British Telecom

• British Gas

• British Steel

Allowed by Gorbachev in 1989 which led to Nationalist revolutions that overthrew communist gov'ts throughout Eastern Europe.

• Overthrow of the Soviet gov't

• Joseph Stalin's burial in the Kremlin Wall

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• German reunification

Russia's policy of openness/freedom of speech

• perestroika

• bilingual

• kremlin

• glasnost

Who Controlled East Germany

• France

• U.S.A

• Soviet Union

• Britain