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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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |