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End of Cold War

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following would be identified as a cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union?

a)

The expensive arms race in the USSR became an enormous burden on the struggling economy

b)

The Soviet government used their military strength to put down any resistance

c)

The United States promised to provide economic assistance to the Soviet Union if they broke up

d)

Winston Churchill coordinated Operation "Sea Lion"

2.

He instituted Glasnost and Perestroika

a)

Gorbachev

b)

Stalin

c)

Lenin

d)

Breshnev

3.

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

a)

Several communist-based governments collapsed across Eastern Europe

b)

The United States increased military aid to South Vietnam

c)

The Marshall Plan

d)

Senator McCathy's trials rooting out suspected communists

4.

Nuclear arms limitations were part of the the

a)

SALT agreement

b)

Marshall Plan

c)

Truman Doctrine

d)

ICBM accords

5.

This US president helped to bring a "thawing" to the end of the Cold War by developing a relationship with China

a)

Nixon

b)

Kennedy

c)

Johnson

d)

Reagan

6.

President Nixon was the first US president in history to visit

a)

The Soviet Union

b)

The United Kingdom

c)

The Republic of North Korea

d)

Canada

7.

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

a)

Gorbachev

b)

Breshnev

c)

Kruschev

d)

Stalin

8.

The Strategic Defensive Initiative or SDI

a)

was a plan the United States developed as a nuclear defense system

b)

an idea proposed by the Soviet Union to limit the amount of work that needed to be done

c)

was scrapped by the British because the cost was too high

d)

was developed by the French as a way to increase their ability to make fresh backed goods

9.

The Berlin Wall fell in

a)

1989

b)

1988

c)

1990

d)

1991

10.

The Soviet Union officially fell in

a)

1991

b)

1992

c)

1989

d)

1990

11.

As a result of a struggling Soviet system

a)

many of the countries in Eastern Europe staged revolutions against their communist governments

b)

people increased their personal holdings in land

c)

a majority of people started to see the Soviet nation as a power entity

d)

their economy grew exponentially