End of Cold War

Who took over from Khrushchev ?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Georgy Malenkov

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Yuri Andropov

___ came up with the word detente.

• Stalin

• Kissinger

• Nixon

• Gorbachev

USA shifted to detente because

• they were engrossed with the Vietnam War

• they were afraid of Soviet nuclear technology

• they had an isolationist policy

• they were fighting with China over Taiwan.

USA mounted economic pressure on SU by

• by working with Saudi Arabia to keep the price of oil low

• refusal to sell wheat to SU

• increasing interest rates for Soviet loans

• closing IMF loans to SU

Where was the Pershing II missiles mounted?

• Germany

• Iceland

• Turkey

• Japan

Able Archer 83 was

• a military exercise which was seen as a nuclear strike against SU

• cartoon character

• 83 ways to fight Soviet Union

• a new technology to shoot the Kremlin from space

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was known as

• bear trap

• glupyy (silly)

• the Long War

• Winter War

Gorbachev won a prize

• for best harvesting

• for fastest Mathematics

• ability to recite Marxism

• solving the latest space question.

How many years was Gorbachev the leader of SU

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Perestoika means

• restructure

• transparency

• culture purity

• Socialism with Soviet characteristics for a New Era