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1. 
What were 2 reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union?
A.
Spending for the arms race and the Chernobyl disaster.
B.
The expense of social programs like education and free housing.
C.
The personal spending of the Prime Minister and a banking crisis.
D.
The collapse of the Asian stock market and the cost of maintaining the Iron Curtain.
2. 
What 1989 event symbolized the end of communism in Europe?
A.
The assassination of Stalin.
B.
The election of Khrushchev.
C.
The fall of the Berlin Wall.
D.
US intervention in Bosnia.
3. 
Who was elected because of Solidarity’s protest movement in Poland?
A.
Mikhail Gorbachev.
B.
Lech Walesa.
C.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
D.
Ronald Reagan.
4. 
What did Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, glasnost, and democratization do?
A.
They called for massive industrialization and a break in agriculture.
B.
They led to private ownership, free speech, and open elections.
C.
They doubled spending on research and development.
D.
They ended the arms race with the US.
5. 
How did Ronald Reagan’s actions affect the relationship between the US and Soviet Union?
A.
The two countries began to make peace and destroy their nuclear weapons.
B.
The US would not seek peace with the Soviet Union for another 20 years.
C.
The Soviet Union was so insulted by Reagan that Gorbachev bombed Miami.
D.
Both countries peacefully agreed to cut off all communications with each other.
6. 
What helped lead to the failure of the Soviet Union?
A.
Chernobyl and the arms race.
B.
Rising fossil fuel prices.
C.
Widespread civil war.
D.
China's supremacy in the communist sphere.
7. 
The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized:
A.
Russia's insistence on German unity.
B.
Communism's popularity in Eastern Europe.
C.
The collapse of European communism.
D.
Increasing Soviet dominance.
8. 
Lech Wolesa was elected as:
A.
an IRA candidate in Ireland.
B.
Poland's Solidarity candidate.
C.
Czechoslovakia's Real Politik president.
D.
an interim president in Russia.
9. 
Perestroika, glasnost, and democratization all:
A.
gave more political and economic rights to the Russian people.
B.
focused on restricting the use of nuclear energy.
C.
created an "economic miracle" similar to Germany's.
D.
enabled the communist party to reassert control.
10. 
US- Soviet relations began to turn to peace and denuclearization in part because of:
A.
The Berlin Airlift.
B.
China's economic rise to power.
C.
The actions of Ronald Reagan.
D.
The election of F.D. Roosevelt.