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This leader was a cold war hawk; he set up many of the cold war policies practiced by other Soviet leaders.
Who is Josef Stalin ? $100
This leader brought about new policies including glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev ? $200
This leader negotiated with Nixon in Moscow and signed the SALT agreement.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev? $300
This leader was gleeful when Sputnik was launched but lost power due to his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev? $400
This man saved Gorbachev when he was held captive by communists and was elected Russia’s first president in 1991.
Who is Boris Yeltsin? $???
This president challenged young people to serve in undeveloped nations through the Peace Corps.
Who is John F. Kennedy? $100
This president focused on healing the nation by pardoning Nixon and asking draft dodgers to come home.
$200 Who is Gerald Ford?
This president focused on human rights, but he was weak in handling the hostage crisis in Iran.
Who is Jimmy Carter? $300
This cold war hawk called the Soviet Union “the evil empire”.
Who is Ronald Reagan? $400
This president had supplies airlifted into Berlin to prevent Soviet expansion.
$500 Who is Harry Truman?
Nixon’s policy of “relaxing tension” resulted in more trade and contact between the superpowers.
$100 What is détente?
This economic policy gave tax breaks to the rich, and then money was spent on expensive defense systems.
$200 What is “Reaganomics”?
This policy restructured the economy and gave incentives to Soviet citizens.
$300 What is “perestroika”?
This treaty, signed in 1987, banned the use of short and medium range missiles by the USSR and the US.
$400 What is the INF treaty ?
This president created policies based on the belief that communism could expand like a falling row of dominoes.
$??? Who is Eisenhower?
This labor union party in Poland challenged the communist government and won.
$100 What is “Solidarity”?
This terms means to bring formal charges of wrong doing against an elected official.
$200 What is to “impeach”?
Nations with enough military, political and economic strength to influence other nations are called this.
$300 What is a “superpower”?
This group supported Nixon during Vietnam, wanting law and order returned to US society.
$400 What is the “silent majority”?
This group supported Reagan, wanting a return to conservative religious values and traditions.
$500 What is “ the moral majority”?
This woman wrote the “Feminine Mystique” and worked for women’s rights.
$100 Who is Betty Friedan?
Reagan surprised many by nominating this woman to be on the Supreme Court.
$200 Who is Sandra Day O’Connor ?
This group was behind the break- in at the Watergate hotel.
$300 Who is CREEP?
These Washington Post reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering the Watergate Affair.
$400 Who are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?
This man became the first elected president in Poland since WWII.
$500 Who is Lech Walesa?
Fall of the Wall
Under Ford’s leadership, 35 nations pledged to respect basic human rights when they signed this act.
What is the Helsinki Agreement?