8.8 End of the Cold War

Question 1

Détente

Answer 1

A relaxation of strained relations between nations.

Question 2

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) was signed by whom?

Answer 2

Richard Nixon - U.S.A.
Leonid Brezhnev - U.S.S.R.

Question 3

Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in 1979?

Answer 3

To help the country’s communist government defend itself against Muslim fighters.

Question 4

Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative was nicknamed what?

Answer 4

Star Wars

Question 5

What was Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative?

Answer 5

It was supposed to be a missile defense system located in space that could target any missile launched at the U.S. or its allies.

Question 6

Mikhail Gorbachev, a progressive Soviet leader, favored what two political reforms?

Answer 6

peristroika and glasnost

Question 7

Perestroika

Answer 7

Restructuring the Soviet market to allow more free enterprise

Question 8

Glasnost

Answer 8

A policy of opening up Soviet Society and political processes

Question 9

Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed in 1987 restricted what?

Answer 9

Intermediate range nuclear weapons.

Question 10

In December 1991, what ended?

Answer 10

The Soviet Union

Question 11

In 1990, what two countries reunited?

Answer 11

East and West Germany

Question 12

One of Gorbachev’s reforms was the end of economic support for Soviet Satellites. What was the result?

Answer 12

Greater freedom, and eventually, independence.