Cold War & Decolonization (c.1900- Present)

Question 1

Espionage: CIA and KGB

Question 2

The Cuban Model

Answer 2

Equality for black Cubans + greater rights for women
- desegregate public places: beaches, parks, work sites and social clubs
- outlawed discrimination in employment and education

Attempts to improve infrastructure, hospitals, housing, and education
- Universal Education = eliminating illiteracy

Question 3

Cuban Missle Crisis

Answer 3

• Russia attempts to build Nukes in Cuba
• Nearly led to full nuclear war in 1963

Question 4

1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Answer 4

• limiting the global impact of nuclear testing. By banning tests in specific environments, it aimed to protect both human health and the environment.

Question 5

Nixon & Detente

Question 6

Non Proliferation Treaty

Answer 6

prevent spread od nuclear weapons

Question 7

SALT I

Answer 7

United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments

Question 8

The Nuclear Freeze Movement

Answer 8

• mass movement in the United States during the 1980s. Its primary goal was to secure an agreement between the U.S. and Soviet governments to halt the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons

Question 9

Cold War in Latin America (CIA interventions)

Question 10

Soviet - Afghan War

Answer 10

• Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979
• No “winner”

Question 11

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Answer 11

1989
- fall of former communist states

Question 12

Mikhael Gorbachev

Answer 12

• Opened political and economic systems with cincented local elections, less restricted civil society groupds, less censoship.

Question 13

Glasnost

Answer 13

“Openness”
- more information from west
- less censorship–> critisism

Question 14

Perestroika

Answer 14

“Restricting”