H7 - End of Cold War

Question 1

Reagan’s slogan

Answer 1

‘peace through strength’

Question 2

Evil Empire speech

Answer 2

1983
“the focus of evil in the modern world”
battle btw good and evil

Question 3

Nicaragua

Answer 3

1983
didn’t intervene bc neared a new VN
financed the Contras agsnt communist Sandinista regime
military operations in Grenada

Question 4

defense budget

Answer 4

sharp rise
$1,3 trillon
new devastating technologies (neutron bomb, 700 nuclear weapons)

Question 5

SDI

Answer 5

Strategic Defense Initiative

destroya missiles in space

Question 6

Euromissile crisis

Answer 6

1983
culmination of military buildup
URSS had deployed SS20s so agreement w Thatcher w support of NATO to deploy new gen of nuclear missiles = Pershings
exercises w ‘Able Archer’ op

Question 7

Korean Airline Flight

Answer 7

shot down in 1983 by USSR who mistook it for an American reconnaissance plane
= nuclear war possible

Question 8

State of Union address

Answer 8

1984

‘America is back’ + proposed peace

Question 9

reforms Gorbachev

Answer 9

1985 : Perestroika

1986 : Glasnost

Question 10

INF

Answer 10

1987
disarmament treaty of Washington
aka Intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty

Question 11

Chernobyl accident

Answer 11

1986

disastrous management, ø transparency, ø adequate care for residents

Question 12

Sinatra doctrine

Answer 12

1987

≠ Brezhnev doctrine

Question 13

Velvet Revolution

Answer 13

may to November 1989
New Democratic regimes in Hungary, CZ and Poland
climax = Berlin Wall

Question 14

meetings

Answer 14

Geneva (85) and Reykjavik (86)

Question 15

START

Answer 15

1991
Strategic Arm Reduction Treaty
Bush
smoothly sustained improve relations, more simple than Reagan