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Who was the American President during the 1st Strategic Arms Limitations Meetings?

Nixon

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Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Camp David Accords?

Begin and Sadat

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Who met with Russian leadership in the 1980's to help negotiate an end to the Cold War?

Reagan

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Who was largely responsible for the reforms that led to the end of communism in the Soviet Union?

Gorbachev

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Who was the first President of Russia following the end of the Cold War?

Yeltsin

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A period of reduced tensions and increased cooperation is called what?
Detente
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The name given to a series of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that took place from 1969 to 1972.
SALT I
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What did Reagan believe would happen to the USSR if the US continued to build up its military resources?
Its economy would collapse trying to keep up.
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How did Reagan’s defense spending affect the annual budget deficit?
Significantly increased.
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Increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union is called what?
Glasnost
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The policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system is known as what?
Perestroika
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A sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government can be called what?
Coup d'état
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President Nixon hoped while in office he’d be able to focus his energies on what?
Foreign policy
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President Nixon believed what about the US and China?
They should normalize relations.
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President Nixon helped to negotiate which of the following to reduce the number of weapons in the world?
SALT I
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Before becoming President, Jimmy Carter served as which of the following?
Governor of Georgia
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President Carter believed the US foreign policy should revolve around what?
Human rights.
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President Carter's greatest Cold War success came when he helped negotiate which of the following?
Camp David Accords.
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What was the Iran-Contra scandal?
Illegal sale of arms to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels.
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What was nuclear deterrence, or 'mutual assured destruction'?
Both sides would be destroyed in nuclear war.
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What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?
Reagan's defense missile system.
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President Carter's Cold War failures included the Soviet Union invading which of the following countries?
Afghanistan.
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Before becoming President, Ronald Reagan served as which of the following?
Governor of California.
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President Reagan believed the US should end the Cold War with which of the following ideas?
Outspend and outlast the Soviet Union.
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What was the Reagan Doctrine?
The policy of supporting anti-communist revolutions globally.
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What was the first treaty to call for the destruction of nuclear weapons?

INF

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To defeat the Soviet Union without a physical battle, President Reagan supported the idea of trying to do what?
Win the space race.
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Who became the leader of the USSR in 1985 and agreed to resume arms control talks?
Mikhail Gorbachev.
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By what means were Communist rulers replaced with democratically elected governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria?
Democratic elections.
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In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of what?
The Soviet Union.

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