USA Related
He was president at the time of Gorbachev's rise to power
What is Ronald Reagan?
The Geneva Accords led to the USSR withdrawing from this Arab nation.
What is Afghanistan?
The reduction of military weapons (specifically nuclear)
What is disarmament?
Who Alex is supposed to be dressed up as.
What is Gorbachev?
What is the Geneva Summit?
Both violent and peaceful revolutions in these Soviet satellite states helped expedite the collapse of the USSR (Name three (3))
What are:
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Romania
East Germany
This is Gorbachev's stance on nuclear weapons
What is attempting to limit potential nuclear warfare between US and USSR?
Who Kate is supposed to be dressed up as.
What is Reagan?
What is one reason why Gorbachev sought to ease tensions between USSR and USA?
What is:
Economic challenges within the USSR?
His more peaceful ideologies?
Strategic alignment?
(We will take others as well)
What are Afghanistan and Pakistan?
The SDI was developed primarily to do this.
What is to protect the US from space?
When Gorbachev ascended to power.
When is 1985?
The American market leaked into the USSR leading to the opening of these two famous American fast food chains.
What are McDonalds and Pizza Hut?
These were some of the hardline Communist dictator of the satellite states of the USSR that opposed Gorbachev's more liberal policies. (Name one (1))
Who are:
Erich Honecker (East Germany)
Nicolae Ceausescu (Romania)
Wojciech Jaruzelski (Poland)
Gustav Husak (Czechoslovakia)
Miklos Nemeth (Hungary)
This treaty was signed in 1987 and called for the progressive disarmament of nuclear armaments in the USSR and US.
What is the Intercontinental Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
What people thought the birthmark on Gorbachev's head looked like.
What is the USSR?
Reagan was a staunch supporter of this plan to create an orbital defense system to stop nuclear attacks.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
What is Star Wars?
Gorbachev didn't uphold this doctrine, which stated that if there was a threat to socialist rule in any state within the Soviet Bloc, the USSR was was justified in intervening
What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
The city where the 1986 summit meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan took place
What is Reykjavik (Iceland)?
Pronounce Wojciech.
Look at Alex!