Gorbachev
Gorbachev's policy that allowed some freedom of speech and expression.
What is glasnost?
This program aimed to protect the United States from nuclear attack.
What is the SDI or "Star Wars"?
This country was reunified in 1990 after its citizens were allowed to have free elections.
What is Germany?
A movement that called for a moratorium, or “freeze,” on the production, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons.
What is the Nuclear Freeze Movement?
Gorbachev's policy to restructure the Soviet economy by opening private business, shutting down ineffective state-run factories, and lifting some foreign trade restrictions.
What is perestroika?
Reagan's famous quote that challenged Gorbachev to open the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin.
What is "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"?
The dissolution of the this pact in July 1991 was yet another sign of the Soviet Union’s imminent downfall.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
A Reagan arms program, also sometimes referred to as Star Wars, that was founded to create a “missile shield” that would protect the United States from nuclear attack.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI?
This was the year Mikhail Gorbachev took over the leadership of the Soviet Union.
A demand by the American people to stop to the production, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons.
What is the Nuclear Freeze Movement?
What is December 1991?
A group of communist states of Eastern Europe under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War in opposition to the capitalist Western Bloc.
The Soviet bloc or Eastern bloc.
Soviet citizens under Mikhail Gorbachev's rule faced these two shortages.
What is housing and food shortages?
This group was the major supporter of Ronald Reagan's Presidency.
This treaty, signed in 1987, required both countries to remove and destroy all European missiles.
What is the INF or Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty?
A policy introduced by Reagan to openly support anticommunist insurgents and movements worldwide. This doctrine demonstrated a harsher, more militant stance against the Soviet Union, and communism as a whole.
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
The Soviet economy was in crisis in the mid-1980s, when Gorbachev became the Soviet leader and this type of economy failed to maintain strong control over market forces.
What is a centrally planned economy?
Compared to previous U.S. policy, this doctrine represented a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union and communism in general.
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
This country was the first republic of the Soviet Union to declare its independence as a nation-state in 1990.
What is Lithuania?
The treaty signed by Gorbachev and Reagan promising that both nations would remove and destroy all European missiles with ranges of 300 to 3,400 miles. The treaty also allowed the superpowers to inspect each other’s missile bases in order to verify that the weapons had been removed and destroyed.
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty?