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WorksheetsEnd of Cold War
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following would be identified as a cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union?
The expensive arms race in the USSR became an enormous burden on the struggling economy
The Soviet government used their military strength to put down any resistance
The United States promised to provide economic assistance to the Soviet Union if they broke up
Winston Churchill coordinated Operation "Sea Lion"
He instituted Glasnost and Perestroika
Gorbachev
Stalin
Lenin
Breshnev
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
Nuclear arms limitations were part of the the
SALT agreement
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
ICBM accords
This US president helped to bring a "thawing" to the end of the Cold War by developing a relationship with China
Nixon
Kennedy
Johnson
Reagan
President Nixon was the first US president in history to visit
The Soviet Union
The United Kingdom
The Republic of North Korea
Canada
The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev
Breshnev
Kruschev
Stalin
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 Berlin Wall fell in
1989
1988
1990
1991
The Soviet Union officially fell in
1991
1992
1989
1990
As a result of a struggling Soviet system
many of the countries in Eastern Europe staged revolutions against their communist governments
people increased their personal holdings in land
a majority of people started to see the Soviet nation as a power entity
their economy grew exponentially
