U9 U5 The End Of The Cold War

Question 1

What is autonomy?

Answer 1

being self-governing

Question 2

What is purge?

Answer 2

rid political party of undesriable members

Question 3

Who was the 7th and last ruler of the Soviet Union?

Answer 3

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 4

During Stalin’s time, who had the purges targeted?

Answer 4

anyone in Communist party who challenged Stalin’s power

Question 5

How was Gorbachev’s way of assessing conditions in the SU different to his predecessors?

Answer 5

• acknowledge SU behind US
• economy in trouble
• favored reform

Question 6

To improve SU conditions, what was the policy of political reform Gorbachev allowed?

Answer 6

Glasnost (openess)

Question 7

What were Gorbachev’s series of economic reforms called?

Answer 7

perestroika (restructuring)

Question 8

Which president did Gorbachev meet several times with? What agreement did they sign?

Answer 8

• Ronald Reagan

- eliminate types of Sov and Ame missiles in Euro

Question 9

Gorbachev allowed the people a choice of () in elections for a restructured Soviet govt

Answer 9

candidates

Question 10

Did all candidates come from the Communist party?

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

Gorbachev withdrew Soviet troops from which country?

Answer 11

Afghanistan

Question 12

Did the US initially respond cautiously to Gorbachev?

Answer 12

yes

Question 13

Despite there being Communists who opposed Gorbachev’s reforms, did the reforms still prevail?

Answer 13

yes

Question 14

Where did the first Eastern Euro revolutions occur?

Answer 14

Poland

Question 15

What was the result of the protests in Poland against Communist rule?

Answer 15

• Solidarity legalized
• participate in parliamentary elections
• Lech Walesa president

Question 16

Which country split into five nations after the fall of Communism? Which was the most aggressive when civil war broke out?

Answer 16

Yugoslavia

-Serbs of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Question 17

Did Albanians flee from their country for better economic conditions?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

How did the rev in Hungary begin?

Answer 18

releasing leaders of 1956 revolt against Communists

Question 19

What kind of democracy did Hungary become?

Answer 19

multi-party democracy

Question 20

Which border did Hungary open that east Germans took as opportunity to gain freedom in the west?

Answer 20

Austria

Question 21

When did East Germany open its border with the West, and when did it become one nation?

Answer 21

• 1989

- 1990

Question 22

In Czechoslovakia, what was the peaceful end of Communist rule known as?

Answer 22

Velvet Revolution

Question 23

How did Czechoslovakia’s end of Communist rule begin?

Answer 23

resignation of Communist Leadership

Question 24

In Czechoslovakia, who led the transitional govt?

Answer 24

• Alexander Dubcek

- Vaclav Havel

Question 25

In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into what two nations?

Answer 25

- Czech republic | - Slovakia

Question 26

Who was the Romanian Communist dictator who was executed in 1989?

Answer 26

Nicolae Ceausescu (SEE-AW-SES-KU)

Question 27

Communist dictator of Bulgaria was forced to do what?

Answer 27

resign and imprisoned for corruption

Question 28

How many republics/provinces/states did the SU consist of?

Answer 28

15

Question 29

The Russian Republic govt was led by who?

Answer 29

Boris Yeltsin

Question 30

Yeltsin was thrown out of what in 1987 for advocating radical economic reform?

Answer 30

Soviet Politburo

Question 31

Who were the anti-reform Communists led by?

Answer 31

Gorbachev's vice president

Question 32

Who called on people to oppose the coup by the anti-reform Communists?

Answer 32

Boris Yeltsin

Question 33

In November, What Party did Yeltsin ban?

Answer 33

Communist Party

Question 34

The Russian Republics decided they did not want a new central govt, and instead formed what?

Answer 34

loose confederation

Question 35

What took place of the SU when it was dissolved? What did it comprise of?

Answer 35

- Commonwealth of Independent States | - 11 of 15 SU republics

Question 36

Reforms in the Commonwealth countries were hampered by what?

Answer 36

- rising crime - unemployment - lack of knowledge run private buisness

Question 37

What remains the most powerful of the former Soviet republics?

Answer 37

Russia

Question 38

In the late 1990s, who was first Yeltsin's PM of Russ, and then the president of Russia?

Answer 38

Vladimir Putin

Question 39

Who won the Cold War?

Answer 39

US

Question 40

Was the American economy able to survive the Cold War?

Answer 40

yes