end of the cold war & events

Question 1

fall of the wall

Answer 1

came down during november 9, 1989 during a press conference in berlin

Question 2

detente

Answer 2

time where cold war tensions eased between US and USSR

Question 3

berlin blockade

Answer 3

cut off all land & river transit between west berlin & west germany

Question 4

berlin wall

Answer 4

1961-1989, represented the iron curtain & divided europe between communism & democracy

Question 5

berlin airlift

Answer 5

is a neutral place in the soviet controlled area, and tries to prevent western half from traveling in and out

Question 6

sputnik

Answer 6

first soviet satellite

Question 7

space race

Answer 7

US & USSR both tried to get to space first, USSR sent satellites & laika, US crashed rocket into the moon

Question 8

hungarian uprising

Answer 8

july of 1956 protest, political oppression

Question 9

U2 spy plane incident

Answer 9

U2 spy plane shot down, embarrassing for US, eisenhower proposes open skies plan

Question 10

1980 olympic boycott

Answer 10

Moscow & other nations boycotted the olympics, US didn’t want to enter Russia, limit Russia & US nuclear forces

Question 11

strategic defense initiative & cost

Answer 11

stop soviet missiles before they hit the US, spy planes & defense, costed 30 billion dollars

Question 12

chernobyl disaster

Answer 12

ukraine during routine shutdown of nuclear power plants caused an explosion contaminating many parts of ukraine

Question 13

glasnost

Answer 13

an open government and wider source of information

Question 14

perestroika

Answer 14

restructuring of political and economic systems in USSR

Question 15

gorbachev

Answer 15

soviet & russian politician who served until the countries dissolution