Chapter 24 - Cold War

Question 1

When did the USSR withdraw from Afghanistan?

Answer 1

1988

Question 2

What was the significance of Gorbachev using political pluralism within the USSR?

Answer 2

Change from old communist society
Demonstration for end of communist power party

Question 3

Which 3 republics of the USSR began demanding independence from 1990?

Answer 3

Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia

Question 4

Who was Boris Yeltsin and what did he gain in May 1990?

Answer 4

Communist party chief - chosen parliamentary leader of Russian Federation

Question 5

How did Yeltsin and Gorbachev differ in views of the USSR?

Answer 5

Yeltsin saw dissolving of ussr as inevitable rather then Gorbachev who saw that the ussr would never break up

Question 6

Why was it difficult for the ussr to agree to a reunified Germany as a NATO member?

Answer 6

Was a problem for Soviet society as gone to war with facist Germany

Question 7

What did the West German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, promise to Gorbachev in July 1990 as a concession to allow the reunification of Germany?

Answer 7

Undertake no harmful military plans
Not to station nuclear weapons in east Germany
Pay resettlement of the Red Army

Question 8

What pressures was Gorbachev facing by the winter of 1990-1991?

Answer 8

Daily lines for food growing
Nothing on the shelves result of prerestroika

Question 9

2 examples of Gorbachev being anti- reform from 1991?

Answer 9

Tightened security and brought hardliners into government