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

Nixon

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

Begin and Sadat

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

Reagan

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

Gorbachev

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

Yeltsin

A period of reduced tensions and increased cooperation is called what?

Detente

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

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.

How did Reagan’s defense spending affect the annual budget deficit?

Significantly increased.

Increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union is called what?

Glasnost

The policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system is known as what?

Perestroika

A sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government can be called what?

Coup d'état

President Nixon hoped while in office he’d be able to focus his energies on what?

Foreign policy

President Nixon believed what about the US and China?

They should normalize relations.

President Nixon helped to negotiate which of the following to reduce the number of weapons in the world?

SALT I

Before becoming President, Jimmy Carter served as which of the following?

Governor of Georgia

President Carter believed the US foreign policy should revolve around what?

Human rights.

President Carter's greatest Cold War success came when he helped negotiate which of the following?

Camp David Accords.

What was the Iran-Contra scandal?

Illegal sale of arms to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels.

What was nuclear deterrence, or 'mutual assured destruction'?

Both sides would be destroyed in nuclear war.

What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?

Reagan's defense missile system.

President Carter's Cold War failures included the Soviet Union invading which of the following countries?

Afghanistan.

Before becoming President, Ronald Reagan served as which of the following?

Governor of California.

President Reagan believed the US should end the Cold War with which of the following ideas?

Outspend and outlast the Soviet Union.

What was the Reagan Doctrine?

The policy of supporting anti-communist revolutions globally.

What was the first treaty to call for the destruction of nuclear weapons?

INF

To defeat the Soviet Union without a physical battle, President Reagan supported the idea of trying to do what?

Win the space race.

Who became the leader of the USSR in 1985 and agreed to resume arms control talks?

Mikhail Gorbachev.

By what means were Communist rulers replaced with democratically elected governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria?

Democratic elections.

In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of what?

The Soviet Union.