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WorksheetsTopic 16 REVIEW
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Why did the United States refuse to participate in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games?
USSR declared war on South Vietnam
USSR tested its first nuclear weapon
USSR invaded Afghanistan
USSR invaded Ukraine
During the Cold War how did the USSR impose its rule on the satellite nations like Czechoslovakia and Poland?
The USSR threatened military force
The USSR used economic sanctions
The USSR used propaganda
The USSR encouraged democracy
"Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - President Reagan, June, 1987
Why did President Reagan want the leader of the USSR to take down the Berlin Wall?
To end World War II
To protect East Germany from becoming a satellite nation
To take an important step toward world peace
To promote democracy in Western Europe
Once India announced that they had conducted a nuclear weapons test in 1998, who exploded FIVE nuclear devices?
North Korea
Pakistan
Syria
Iraq
Why did the Soviets need to improve their relations with the United States in the late 1980s?
The Soviet economy was performing badly and they had to to cut military spending
The Soviet economy was booming and they wanted to participate in world free trade
The Soviets needed to increase their nuclear weapon arsenal
The Soviets wanted to join NATO
The United States wanted to negotiate with the Soviets from a position of power in the 1980s. To do this they developed a new military system called...
Trust but Verify
Reaganomics
Star Wars
NAFTA
Why did the United States intervene in conflicts in Northern Ireland and Somalia?
To provide weapons
To strengthen NATO
To help end conflicts between local groups in these places
To contain Communism
In what nations did the United States support harsh governments because they were fighting Communist rebels?
South Africa and Somalia
El Salvador and Guatemala
Northern Ireland and Kosovo
Iran and Iraq
Why did President Carter lose the 1980 election?
On the basis of his failed foreign policy in the Middle East
On the basis of his weak response to the USSR
On the basis of his socialist agenda
On the basis of his support for reducing the size of the federal government
Who did the Moral Majority support in the 1980 election?
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
What issue would the Moral Majority be most likely to support?
appointing liberal judges to the Supreme Court
equal pay for women
prayer in public schools
increased regulations on businesses
Define 'glasnost'
restructuring of the economy
Soviet hard-liners
open public debate of government policy
limit to public debate of government policy
Why did President Reagan support cutting taxes?
to provide funds for military spending
to cut the budget deficit
to raise money to spend on social welfare programs
to provide American people and businesses with more money to spend and invest
Which of the following are goals of the conservative movement?
to increase the budget deficit
to cut spending on social welfare programs
to reduce the size of the federal government
to cut military spending
What was the biggest economic challenge for President Carter?
Inflation
Tariffs
Competition from China
Falling energy prices
President Reagan believed that the federal government had gained too much (a) and did not use it well.
The United States provided aid to Russia and Eastern Europe during the 1980s to help ____ governments emerge.
Communist
socialist
democratic
autocratic
President (a) raised taxes because it was difficult to find programs to cut and the deficit was high.
How did the United States respond to apartheid in South Africa?
economic sanctions
military action
US contributed to United Nations peacekeeping forces in SA
Political support for de Klerk
With the end of the Cold War the US did not fear nuclear attack and could therefore...
reduce role in world affairs
reduce military spending
decommission all nuclear arms
leave NATO
