Detente setbacks
End of the Cold War
The Brezhnez Era
The end of the Soviet Union
The New Russia
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What year did the detente receive a major setback?
1979
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Who was put into power in the Soviet Union 1985?
Mikhail Gorbachev
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What two men were Nikita Krushchevs replacements?
Alexei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnez
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The Soviet Union had a problem with the multi ethnic nature. it included how many ethnic groups and how many different languages?
92 ethnic groups and 112 different languages
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Boris Yeltsin was committed to introducing what to Russia?
Free market economy
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What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979?
Afghanistan
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What was "new thinking"?
Gorbachev's willingness to rethink Soviet foreign policy
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what is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
the right of the soviet union to intervene if communism was threatened in another communist state
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What were all the countries that called for independence?
Soviet Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Lithuania
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Yeltsin won reelection in what year?
1996
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What did president Jimmy Carter cancel American participation in?
The Olympic Games
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What was the INF (the intermediate-range Nuclear Force Treaty) ?the elimination of intermediate-range nuclear weapons
the elimination of intermediate-range nuclear weapons
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What were dissidents?
those who spoke outside of the regime
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in 1990 and 1991 Gorbachev stuggled to deal with the problems unleashed by his _______?
reforms
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In what year did Yeltsin resign?
1999
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The Cold War intensified when what U.S. president was elected?
Ronald Reagan
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What is a creditor nation?
a country that imports more than it exports
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What did Brezhnez emphasize?
heavy industry
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a group of conservative leaders did what to Gorbachev on August 19, 1991?
arrested him and tried to seize power
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Who replaced Yeltsin after he resigned?
Vladimir Putin
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Ronald Reagan gave aid to who?
Afghan rebels
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The reunification of what country on October 3, 1990 was a powerful symbol of the end of the Cold War?
Germany
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When the economy started to decline in 1980, a small group emerged and it included which leader?
Mikhail Brezhnez
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On December 5, 1991 Gorbachev resigned and turned over responsibilities as commander to who?
Boris Yeltsin
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In July 2001, Vladimir launched reforms to boost what? Which has now made Russia a growing economy.
growth and budget revenues
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