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He was president at the time of Gorbachev's rise to power

What is Ronald Reagan?

100

The Geneva Accords led to the USSR withdrawing from this Arab nation.

What is Afghanistan?

100

The reduction of military weapons (specifically nuclear)

What is disarmament?

100

Who Alex is supposed to be dressed up as.

What is Gorbachev?

200
This was the first attempt at direct diplomacy between the USSR and USA

What is the Geneva Summit?

200

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

200

This is Gorbachev's stance on nuclear weapons

What is attempting to limit potential nuclear warfare between US and USSR?

200

Who Kate is supposed to be dressed up as.

What is Reagan?

300

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)

300
The USSR and the USA acted as mediators in the signing of peace accords between these two nations

What are Afghanistan and Pakistan?

300

The SDI was developed primarily to do this.

What is to protect the US from space?

300

When Gorbachev ascended to power.

When is 1985?

400

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?

400

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)

400

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)

400

What people thought the birthmark on Gorbachev's head looked like.

What is the USSR?

500

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?

500

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?

500

The city where the 1986 summit meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan took place

What is Reykjavik (Iceland)?

500

Pronounce Wojciech.

Look at Alex!