The End of the Cold War

Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• end of the Vietnam War

• collapse of the Soviet Union

• fall of the Berlin Wall

What do Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost & Perestroika mean in English?

• crash & burn

• Tear down this wall

• openness & restructuring

• democracy & capitalism

Who was the last Soviet premier (leader)?

• Boris Yeltsin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Borat Sagdiyev

Which of these events led to the breakup of the Soviet Union?

• The arms race & government overspending

• An attempt to overthrow the government by pro-democratic forces

• Democratic reforms brought on by Mikhail Gorbachev

• All of these

What did the destruction of the Berlin Wall symbolize?

• the fall of communism
• the fall of capitalism
• the end of the Vietnam War
• the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Glasnost is best characterized as

• a form of re-Stalinization

• a restructuring of the economy

• a form of central planning

• a form of political liberalization

The Reagan administration rapidly increased spending on

• social programs.

• the American military.

• support of the Soviet Union.

• enlargement of the federal government.

“During the 1980s, Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union, initiated a series of reforms known as glasnost and perestroika which were meant to bolster the power of the Soviet Union. These reforms allowed for more freedom of speech, small businesses to control things, churches were opened, and journalists could investigate the government etc…” The outcome was much different than Gorbachev and others expected as they led to the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.”
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From the above reading, how could glasnost and perestroika be described?

• they helped the US recover
• they led to unexpected consequences
• they provided little change
• they gave new power to the Soviet Union
  

The Berlin Wall fell in

• 1989

• 1988

• 1990

• 1991

The Soviet Union officially fell in

• 1991

• 1992

• 1989

• 1990