Gotbachev Ending The Cold War

Question 1

Summits:

Answer 1

Geneva: was prepared to give up 50% of nuclear arms for abandonment of SDI
Reykjavik: was prepared to give up 100% by 2000 for abandonment of SDI

Question 2

Reforms

Answer 2

Glasnost: Freedom of Speech, spiralled out of control
Perestroika: reforming the economy
Soviet debt of 1 billion roubles

Question 3

Broke from Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 3

All troops removed from Afghanistan May 1988

Allowed E.Europe to reform and Poland became non- communist without fear of USSR

Question 4

Arms

Answer 4

Reykjavik: intellectual breakthrough, policy of removing all nukes by 2000 was started by Gorb
Stopped no. Of SS20s

Question 5

Rhetoric

Answer 5

Freedom of choice is a universal principle