World Changes - Part 2

By the end of the 1980s, perestroika and glasnost had made the Soviet Union more open than ever. __________ goods and ideas had become part of Soviet society.

• Capitalist

• Communist

• local

• foreign

The Soviet Union inspired several other Eastern European to push harder against what kind of government/economic system?

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Socialism

In 1989, Hungary had its first _________ political election in decades.

• controlled

• competitive

• capitalist

• communist

What demolition began on November 9, 1989 that symbolized an end to communist government in many European countries?

• The Berlin Wall

• The Iron Curtain

• The 38th Parallel

• The Soviet Border

On December 25, 1991 which country dissolved and broke into several independent nations?

• Germany

• Ukraine

• Soviet Union

• Moldova

Communism remained in China, North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam.

• True

• False

The effects of the Cold War are no longer felt today throughout the world.

• True

• False

1991 was a turning point for the United States because it became the world's only __________.

• superpower

• leading nation

• capitalist country

During the 1980s, the middle eastern nation of Iraq declared war on which neighboring country?

• Pakistan

• Afghanistan

• Iran

• Saudi Arabia

Who was the leader of Iraq?

• Osama bin Laden

• Saddam Hussein

• Oliver North