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16.2 The End of the Cold War
16.2 The End of the Cold War
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This is emergency military rule in a country. Poland's government used this in the early 1980s.
Martial Law
Marshall Plan
Star Wars
Shelter in Place
2
The peace dividend allowed Clinton to do all of the following EXCEPT:
close military bases
reduce military spending
free US from serious threats
change the draft age to 14
3
What is the name of Mrs. Pence's dog that likes to sleep and chew rocks?
Murphy Lee
Herbert Hoover
Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
4
Which of the following presidents spent the most on the military?
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
5
The Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty (INF) called for the US and Soviet Union to:
tear down the Berlin Wall
reduce stockpile of nuclear missiles
allow for free elections of Soviet satellites
label people as communists
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Which of the following is NOT a "cost" of the Cold War?
$6 trillion in defense spending
A sense of global security and happiness
Development of nuclear weapons in most countries
Divided Americans (McCarthyism & Vietnam War)
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What country did the Soviet Union invade and occupy between 1979 and 1989?
Ukraine
Afghanistan
Yugoslavia
Poland
8
These two leaders held summit meetings to ease tensions between the US and the Soviet Union
Reagan and Stalin
Reagan and Gorbachev
Carter and Gorbachev
Carter and Reagan
9
What was the name of Reagan's plan to destroy Soviet missiles from Space and the ground?#notthemovie
Star Trek
Pocahontas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Star Wars
10
Who said "The Soviet Union is the ultimate evil in today's world...?"
George H.W. Bush
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
11
What is the Russian term for speaking out openly?
Strategic Defense Initiative
Solidarity
glasnost
perestroika
12
Which Polish group openly opposed communist rule and went on strike?
Unity
Harmony
Lonely
Solidarity
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Did the US support newly independent countries in Eastern Europe?
True
False
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Which former Soviet Satellite country was the first to hold free elections in 1989?
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Hungary
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In 1989, this symbol of the Cold War fell in Germany
The Berlin Wall
The Maginot Line
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Airlift