End of the Cold War Flashcards
Name the US President in the 1980s.
Ronald Reagan
Alongside his SDI program, give an example of a way he improved the US military.
Stealth Bomber, Trident Missile Submarine, placing Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe
Who was Soviet leader from 1985 to 1991?
Mikhail Gorbachev
On what date did the East German government lift travel restrictions across the Berlin Wall?
9th November 1989
What plea did the President issue to his Soviet counterpart in Berlin regarding the Wall?
“Tear down this Wall!”
How did US foreign policy change in the 1980s regarding communism?
From rollback to diplomacy
What system of government did all Buffer Zone states adopt following the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Capitalist democracy
Give 3 reasons why a revised form of communism was needed in the USSR by the 1980s?
Here are 6: Soviet living standards were appallingly low; Money wasted due to corruption in the Communist Party; Soviet agricultural sector performing poorly, placing millions on the brink of starvation; Key Soviet industries in dire need of modernisation; USSR lagged decades behind the West technologically; Afghan War was draining billions from the economy.
On what date was the Warsaw Pact dissolved?
July 1991
How many nuclear warheads were removed as a result of the 1987 treaty above?
4,000
Where did the superpower leaders meet in 1989 to declare the end of the Cold War?
Malta
Define the Brezhnev Doctrine which was ended in 1988.
The USSR would act to defend any communist country from becoming capitalist.
What does glasnost mean?
Openness to criticism and reform
What is meant by perestroika?
Economic restructuring to a form similar to capitalism
Which Russian leader outlawed the Communist Party in 1990?
Boris Yeltsin
