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IR Book- Chapter 6
From the Soviet Union Back to Russia
1. Did fear and worst-casing in America’s government led to an overestimate of
Soviet power?
2. Give three examples o f how the Soviet government was declining at an
accelerated rate.
3. When did the Soviet power collapse?
4. When did Premier Stalin die? Who replaced him?
5. What happened in the international community when news leaked out about
Khrushchev denounced of the “crimes of Stalin”?
6. Looking at the map on page 93, list 5 that were under Soviet hegemony, part of
Russia’s defensive shield?
7. In what year did the Soviets give up Eastern Europe?
8. Choose one of the rebellions by Soviet’s “satellite countries” from the chart on
page 95 and describe the rebellion.
9. President Nixon in the early 1970’s takes steps to relax tensions with the Soviet
Union. Why did he believe the time was right for this move?
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10. Give two specific examples of President Nixon’s new relations with the Soviets.
11. What does Détente mean?
12. By the 1976 presidential campaign (in the U.S.) what did the term imply?
13. When did the last of the Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan?
14. Why is it referred to as the Soviet Vietnam?
15. What year did the opening of the Berlin Wall happen?
16. List 2 reasons the Soviet Union collapsed.
17. Who was the Soviet leader that began reforms in 1985?
18. Define glasnost and perestroika.
19. Were these reforms successful? Explain.
20. Why did Gorbachev push for détente with the U.S.? What did he need from the
U.S.?
21. What important treaty did the sign?
22. What happened in Poland in1989?
23. What broke out in East Germany?
24. What changed in the Hungarian government?
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25. What event marks the end of the Cold War? (In East Germany)
26. Who won the elections in 1991 in Russia? What was so special about this
election?
27. In 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist. What was the new name of the fifteen
independent republics?
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