AP World: Ch. 36

Which agreement was inaugurated in 1992?

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• Kyoto Protocol

• Paris Agreement

• Maastricht Treaty

What was the impact of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 on the Soviet Union?

• Created anxiety due to a large Muslim minority

• Strengthened Soviet alliances

• Led to economic growth

• Increased military power

What was the main reason for the Soviet Union's economic decline in the 1980s?

• Increased foreign investment

• Extensive environmental deterioration

• Expansion of military power

• Growth in consumer goods production

Who was the U.S. president that denounced the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" in 1980?

• Jimmy Carter

• Richard Nixon

• Ronald Reagan

• George H. W. Bush

What was one of the consequences of the Soviet Union's focus on military production in the 1980s?

• Increase in consumer goods

• Decrease in national income allocation to military

• Reduction in investments for consumer needs

• Improvement in public health

What was the Soviet Union's response to the U.S. diplomatic pressure in the late 1970s?

• Increased trade with the U.S.

• Invasion of Afghanistan

• Signing of a peace treaty

• Withdrawal from international organizations

What term did Mikhail Gorbachev use to describe his policy of openness in the Soviet Union?

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

• Détente

• Ostpolitik

What was a major concern regarding Gorbachev's economic reforms?

• Over-reliance on Western technology

• Uncertainty about balancing reform and stability

• Rapid abandonment of communism

• Excessive foreign investment

What was the policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that called for economic restructuring in the U.S.S.R. in the late 1980s?

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

• Détente

• Collectivization

What was one of the political changes Gorbachev encouraged in 1988?

• Abolishing the Congress of People's Deputies

• Giving considerable power to a new parliament

• Establishing a monarchy

• Reducing the power of the presidency