Chapter 17: Cold War Part 2

The Soviet Union invaded what country to reestablish communism in it?

Glasnost included which of the following?

What caused the Soviet Union to finally collapse?

60 Americans were taken hostage by Islamic Revolutionaries in what country?

The former members of the Iron Curtain formed this organization.

This was implemented in 1980’s Soviet Union to improve the economy.

This helped to limit the number of nuclear weapons created and held.

This country, with the help of Boris Yeltsin, tried to make themselves a democracy with a market economy.

Ronald Reagan was a big supporter of...

Joesph Stalin implemented reforms for democratization in the Soviet Union.

Fidel Castro was almost overthrown during what event?

This is the term for purging the country of Stalin’s memory.

The American strategy of working with the Soviets through diplomatic agreements.

The war in Afghanistan was considered the Soviet Union’s...

What country did the US change its policy towards when they found out the Sandinistas were aiding Marxist rebels?

The “Prague Spring” refers to Czechoslovakia trying to open up their country to new ideas.

Khrushchev and Kennedy were involved in this event that had the world on the brink of war.

The world’s superpowers threatened third world countries with nuclear war to influence them.

Why was the arms race terrifying?

The name for countries underdeveloped not aligned with the US or USSR.