The New Cold War-1979-85

Question 1

When did Ronald Reagan become president

Answer 1

1981

Question 2

What was the famous term reagan used to describe the Soviet Union

Answer 2

Evil empire

Question 3

What was reagans approach with the Soviets

Answer 3

He took a hard line with them,knowing they were weak and bankrupt

Question 4

What was reagans SDI and how did it affect relations

Answer 4

In 1983 Reagan announced the SDI (Strategic Defence Initiative) The idea was to find a way to shoot down soviet missiles using lasers in space.

This went against the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and the soviets didn’t have the money or technology to carry out similar research so it made them look weak

Question 5

However what made reagan change his approach in the ‘second cold war’

Answer 5

After Gorbachev came into office in 1985 and attempted to rebuild the soviets entire economy.

Gorbachev knew he needed to get the USSR out of the cold war if the USSR was going to have any chance of surviving.

So Reagan began to co-operate and the end of the war was coming