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VUS.13c,13d
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who called the Soviet Union "an evil empire"? | Ronald Reagan |
| What was the basis of President Reagan's defense policy? | A massive military buildup |
| What action did President Reagan take in Western Europe? | Put new nuclear missiles in Western Europe |
| What effect did the arms race with the U.S. have on the Soviet Union? | Forced the Soviet Union to increase its military budget to keep up with the U.S. |
| What was the state of the communist economy in the Soviet Union during the 1980s? | 1) Inefficient 2) Terrible |
| What Soviet leader was known for "Glasnost" and "Perestroika"? | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| What is the Russian word for openness? | Glasnost |
| What was the name of Gorbachev's policy of encouraging freedom of expression in the Soviet Union? | Glasnost |
| What Russian word referred to restructuring Soviet society? | Perestroika |
| What type of restructuring did Perestroika do? | Economic restructuring |
| With what movement did Gorbachev have to deal inside the Soviet Union? | Nationalism in the Soviet republics |
| What were the 2 sources of external pressure on the Soviet government under Gorbachev? | 1) East European satellites 2) President Reagan |
| What countries were Soviet satellites after World War II? | Countries of Eastern Europe |
| What does one call a nation that is formally independent, but dominated by another country? | A satellite |
| What was the name of the revolutionary labor movement in Poland during the 1980s? | Solidarity |
| Who said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"? | President Ronald Reagan |
| What structure divided East Berlin from West Berlin during the Cold War? | The Berlin Wall |
| What was the best known symbol of the Cold War? | The Berlin Wall |
| What was the communist part of Berlin during the Cold War? | East Berlin |
| What was the democratic part of Berlin during the Cold War? | West Berlin |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | To prevent people from escaping from communist East Berlin to democratic West Berlin |
| What happened to the Berlin Wall in 1989? | It was torn down. |
| What happened to Germany in 1990? | Reunified under the democratic West German government |
| What happened to the Soviet Union in 1991? | It fell apart or collapsed. |
| What were the three Baltic republics in the Soviet Union? | 1) Estonia 2) Latvia 3) Lithuania |
| What action did the Baltic republics take in 1991? | Declared their independence from the Soviet Union |
| What precedent did the Baltic republics set in 1991? | Other Soviet republics could declare independence from the Soviet Union. |
| What political party was taken apart in the Soviet Union in 1991? | The Soviet communist party |
| What did Gorbachev do on Christmas Day, 1991? | Resigned and said the Soviet Union had ended as a nation |
| What war, which began in 1945, ended by the end of 1991? | The Cold War |
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