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

  2. Who Won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Camp David Accords? Begin and Sadat

  3. Who Met with Russian leadership in the 1980's to help negotiate an end to the Cold War? reagan

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

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

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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. How did Reagan’s defense spending affect the annual budget deficit? Significantly increased

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

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

  12. A sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government can be called what? Coup d'etat

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

  14. President Nixon believed what about the US and China? They should normalize relations

  15. President Nixon helped to negotiate which of the following to reduce the number of weapons in the world? SALT I

  16. Before becoming President, Jimmy Carter Served as which of the following? Governor of georgia

  17. President Carter believed the US foreign policy should revolve around what? Human rights

  18. President Carter's greatest Cold War success came when he helped negotiate which of the following? Camp david accords

  19. What was the Iran-Contra scandal? Illegal sale of arms to iran to fun anti-communist rebels

  20. What was nuclear deterrence, or “mutual assured destruction”?  Both sides would be destroyed in nuclear war

  21. What was the Strategic Defense Initiative? Reagan’s defense missile system

  22. President Carter's cold war failures included the Soviet Union invading which of the following countries? afghanistan

  23. Before becoming President, Ronald Reagan served as which of the following? Governor of cali

  24. President Reagan believed the US should end the Cold War with which of the following ideas? Outspend and outlast soviet union

  25. President Reagan sent US support to revolutionary groups fighting communism to what countries?

  26. What was the Reagan Doctrine?

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

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

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

  30. Because the government could no longer support itself financially, Soviet leadership began allowing some capitalist ideas and businesses into the country, to ease the economic burden.

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

  32. In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of what? The soviet union