Economics
This economic issue plagued Jimmy Carter’s Presidency and the late 70s to early 80s.
What is inflation?
This U.S. president sought an approach to the Soviet Union that was much more confrontational than traditional detente, ramping up military spending.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
According to the chapter’s conclusion, Mandelbaum viewed the U.S. policy of ______ as crucial to winning the Cold war and keeping it from reaching direct conflict.
What is Containment?
This Eastern European soviet bloc state was the first domino to fall, beginning the end of the USSR.
What is Poland?
What war fought by the Soviet Union was most similar to the U.S. experience in Vietnam?
What is the Invasion of Afghanistan?
According to Mandelbaum, communism fell behind due to what reason? Hint: 372.
What are the fundamental inadequacies of its economic system?
This Soviet leader rejected the precept, dating back to Lenin, that conflict between communist and capitalist camps was inevitable.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This economic management style characterized by giving priority to private institutions over government supervision arose in the 1980s.
What is Neoliberalism?
The three spheres of influence/worlds that dominated the Cold War were the Western world, Communist world, and ______ .
What is the Third World?
This Cold War era 1980 Winter Olympics Final pitted the U.S. and the Soviet Union against each other, and ended in a highly unlikely upset for the U.S.
It is often referred to as _________
The Miracle On Ice
When Mandelbaum states that great wars are won by countries “with the longest purse,” what is he referring to?
What are countries with abundant economic reserve/resources?
The visit of this world leader in Poland in 1979 spurred massive nationalist and anticommunist sentiment, weakening the Soviet Union.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
The successive and one by one fall of Soviet states in Eastern Europe in 1989 represented what principle of geopolitics?
What is the Domino principle/effect?
This 1991 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limited each side to a total of 1,600 long-range land and sea based ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. It helped close America’s “window of vulnerability.”
What is the START I Treaty?
Bonus +100 if you can translate the acronym
This Coldwar era U.S. politician starred in the 1951 film about a chimpanzee Bedtime For Bonzo
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker's high interest rates in the early 80s helped bring down inflation but temporarily pushed ______ up to 10.8% in 1982.
What is The Unemployment Rate?
What leader succeeded Gorbachev in leading Russia?
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
Mikhail Gorbachev’s famous economic policy of “restructuring” translates to what word in Russian?
What is Perestroika?
What did critics label George H.W. Bush’s politically weak speech in Kyiv in 1991 encouraging Ukraine to stay in the USSR to avoid “suicidal nationalism?”
What is the Chicken Kiev Speech?
Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform of “glasnost” refers most to what western ideal enumerated in the U.S. constitution?
What is free/freer speech?
This Eastern European political group caused the Soviet Union major headaches in the 1980s until its fall.
What is Solidarity?
The late Leonid Brezhnev era Russian politburo was mockingly referred to as an _____ due to the advanced age and mental decline of its leaders.
What is an Old Folks Home
The thirty glorious years of economic development in Western Europe after WW2 are referred to as….
What is the “trentes glorieuses?"
In what cities did Reagan and Gorbachev meet in? Hint: they met five times
What are Geneva, Iceland, Moscow, Washington D.C., and New York?
What comical and crucial mistake led to the fall of the Berlin Wall?
An incorrect announcement by a government spokesperson stating free passage to the West was allowed without restriction.