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WHH 11.4 Quiz Timm
i wanna play totk instead of this, but i also don't want summer school
Term | Definition |
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SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks meant to verbally sort out matter of nuclear weapon production |
Detente | Period/state of peace |
President Carter’s policies | humanitarian efforts, work to expose the poor conditions of Soviet citizens |
Embargo | an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. Carter ordered this on the USSR |
Olympics (yeah, technically 1980 - sue me!) | President Carter had America and several other countries opt out of this event Moscow to show their frustration with the Soviet Government |
Humanitarian | a person who seeks to promote human welfare; a philanthropist. |
Carter Doctrine | the United States would use military force, if necessary, to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf. |
How did Carter’s policies impact the Soviet Union? | |
War in Afghanistan | |
Soviet economic issues | |
Reagan | 40th president of the US, in office from 1981-1989 |
Reagan's announcement | The Star Wars plan |
Reagan's challenge | His asking of Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall., |
Star Wars | The (fake) plan Reagan proposed to shoot down missiles from space. mostly used as a bluff against the USSR |
Gorbachev | Soviet President same time as Reagan |
Perestroika | |
Glasnost | the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985. |
The Soviet Union Collapses | |
Impact of nationalism on Soviet satellites | They revolted against |
The end of the Cold War | USSR dissolved |