Famous People
He was the last leader of the Soviet Union and known for forums of Glasnost and Perestroika
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Churchill identified this divide after WWII
What is the Iron Curtin?
Reform that fostered openness in the USSR
What is glasnost?
War that contributed greatly to the collapse
What is the Afghan War?
The time of the USSR fighting the Afghan War
What is 1979 - 1989?
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
The crisis that saw the world close to nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A reform that fostered economic restructuring of the USSR
What is perestroika?
Major nuclear disaster that contributed to the fall
What is Chernobyl?
When Gorbachev became the General Secretary and leader of USSR
When was 1985?
The US President that fiercely fought the evil empire to "win" backing anti communist revolutionaries and regimes.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Divider in Germany
What is the Berlin Wall?
Name given to Ronald Reagan's foreign policy strategy to beat the USSR
What is the "Reagan Doctrine"?
The human chain of people across Lithuania
What is the Baltic Way?
Chernobyl disaster occured on this date
When was 1986?
Soviet leader prior to Mikhail Gorbachev
Who is Yuri Andropov?
The name of the revolutionaries in Niguragua
Who are the Contras?
Salt
What are Strategic Arms Limitation Talks?
New type of economy fostered by Gorbachev
What is a market economy?
When was August 1991?
The US President at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union
Who is George Bush?
What is detente?
CIS
What is the Commonweath of Independent States
Aspect of improvement needed by the USSR to improve their production and economy
What is technology?
The exact date month and year of the forced resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and the dissolution of the USSR
When was December 25, 1991?