8.8

Question 1

Ronald Reagen

Answer 1

US president during the Cold War who was against communism and tried to end the Cold War, also attempted to actually roll back communism

Question 2

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 2

USSR leader who tried to modernize the USSR via the perestroika and glasnost, which, coupled with the inherent fallacies of his form of communism, resulted in the fall of the USSR

Question 3

detente

Answer 3

period of peace during the Cold War between the US and USSR in which they attempted to negotiate peace and a decrease in armed weapons

Question 4

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

Answer 4

agreements between the US and USSR for nuclear disarmament. came in two editions

Question 5

perestroika

Answer 5

USSR economic reform instituted by Gorbachev to allow free markets and reduce governmental control over economics

Question 6

glasnost

Answer 6

USSR reform instituted by Gorbachev that means “openness” and allowed for free speech and reduction in censorship

Question 7

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty)

Answer 7

an agreement between the US and USSR to eliminate short and long-range nuclear missiles to reduce the threat of nuclear war with Europe

Question 8

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Answer 8

an idea proposed by Reagen to create a space force of lasers that could eliminate nuclear attacks, it was never fully developed