Foreign Policy After the Cold War

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

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Gorbachev

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President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a missile treaty in hopes of?

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Reducing tensions associated with the threat of nuclear war

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The period after WWII of rivalry and tension between the US and the Soviet Union was ___.

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Cold War

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What marked the end of the Cold War? Options: the rule of Gorbechev, the creation of Russia, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the destruction of the Berlin Wall

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the breakup of the Soviet Union

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What did the destruction of the Berlin Wall symbolize? Options: the fall of communism, the fall of capitalism, the end of the Vietnam War, the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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the fall of communism

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The Soviet Union officially fell in

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1991

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The Berlin Wall fell in

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1989

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Perestroika was...

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Gorbachev' policy of reform and restructuring in the USSR

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What was Gorbachev's 1980s policy of glasnost in the USSR?

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Encouraged freedom in speech and governnment

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After the fall of the USSR, what did many parts of the former USSR do?

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Break away from Soviet Union and become independent