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Reagan's foreign policy objectives
When reagan became president in 1...,
What were reagans three foreign p...,
What were the relevant policies o...
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The Reagan Doctrine
How did reagan hope to weaken the...,
What did reagans commitments to w...,
Give an example of the reagan doc...
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Changing diplomacy
What was the most important chang...,
What did reagan believe about pre...,
What did reagan believe about sup...
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Trade restrictions
What did reagan introduce,
What did reagan restrict in decem...,
What did reagan restrict in june ...
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SDI
What did reagan initiate in 1984,
What was reagan prepared to do,
Why did star wars put the us in a...
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Reagan's foreign policy and the end of the Cold War
What was regans foreign policy no...,
Why did reagans policy play a maj...,
How was the reagan doctrine signi...
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The USSR and EE
What happened to the ussr during ...,
What meant that brezhnev found it...
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Poland, 1980-81
What did economic problems in pol...,
What did the soviet invasion of a...,
What implied a rejection of the b...
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The role of Pope John Paul 2
Why was the election of pope john...,
What became a focal point for ant...,
What did the popes visit to polan...
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Instability in the USSR, 1980-84
During 1980 84 what was happening...,
Why was the soviet leadership una...,
What did the weakness at the top ...
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Gorbachev and the New Thinking
When did mikhail gorbachev become...,
What was gorbachev willing to admit,
What was gorbachevs solution to e...
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Nuclear diplomacy
What did gorbachev seek to reduce,
What did gorbachev and reagan try...,
What happened at the geneva summi...
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The role of Margaret Thatcher
How did thatcher help reagan in h...,
What else did thatcher help do,
What played a role in reagans app...
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The end of the CW
What happened in the period 1987 9,
What had happened by 9 november 1980,
What surprised politicians and ex...
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Gorbachev's final reforms
How did gorbachev extend perestro...,
What was gorbachevs most signific...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
Which countries were the first to...,
Why was the fall of communism in ...,
In september 1989 how many east g...
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The fall of communism in EE
What happened to communist regime...
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Gorbachev's role in the collapse of communism
How did gorbachev initially play ...,
What did gorbachev essentially imply,
What happened to communism once f...
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The US role in the collapse of communism
During 1989 what did us president...,
What was george h w bush praised for
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The fall of the USSR
What did gorbachev and bust not t...,
What did nationalist countries in...,
How did some communist hard liner...
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Reagan and the triumphalists
What does the triumphalist argume...,
Why did the ussr have to abandon ...,
What did reagans us defence budge...
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Criticism of the triumphalist interpretation
What have numerous historians and...,
From 1982 to 1984 how was reagans...,
What does reagans offer to share ...
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Margaret Thatcher
What do many triumphalist histori...,
What did thatcher support
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Thatcher's support for Reagan's policies
Give an example of when thatcher ...,
What did thatcher permit from nov...,
What did thatcher act as
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Pope John Paul II
How did the polish pope john paul...,
When were pope john paul iis visi...,
Give an example of how pope john ...
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The pro-Gorbachev view
Why do historians stress gorbache...,
What did gorbachev pursue,
What did gorbachev do in 1987
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Criticism of the pro-Gorbachev interpretation
Why has the pro gorbachev interpr...,
What was beyond one leaders abili...,
What does the pro gorbachev view ...
5
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The role of key personalities interpretation: an overall assessment
What does the interpretation focu...,
What is this approach particularl...,
What can personality based explan...
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The economic burden of the USSR
What did east west conflict impose,
What have many historians argued ...
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The stagnant Soviet economy
Almost until the very end of the ...,
In 1959 what did khrushchev famou...,
In 1967 what did the ussr predict
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Technological backwardness
What was the technological positi...,
What did the west impose on the s...,
What did the usa ban in 1974
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A costly empire
What did the soviet empire act as,
In theory what should the su have...,
What did the soviets favourable t...
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The arms race
What did the arms race impose,
What was a problem with the su,
What happened to the ussrs defenc...
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The economic factors' interpretation: an overall assessment
What does this interpretation foc...,
What is this approach particularl...,
What was happening before gorbach...
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People power in the Soviet Bloc
What played an important role in ...,
What broke he communist regimes m...,
What does the people power interp...
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Why did popular discontent grow in Eastern Europe in the 1980s?
What encouraged many east europea...,
What did growing trade links with...,
Why did east european living stan...
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Did people power end the Cold War?
What did the speedy and largely p...,
How did popular pressure push the...,
What did gorbachev abandon
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The moral bankruptcy of communism
What do many historians agree abo...,
What factors had seriously eroded...,
What did the undermining process ...
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A privileged and corrupt elite
What emerged in the ussr,
What two groups was soviet societ...,
Within the communist party which ...
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An alienated population
What did the ordianry citizens of...,
What did the deficiencies in the ...,
In public why did most people con...
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Abuse of human rights
What did the helsinki accords 197...,
What did the soviet leadership ca...,
What did the helsinki accords enc...
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Empire by rape
How was the soviet bloc and empir...,
What were the results of having a...,
What events reinforced the idea o...
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The moral bankruptcy interpretation: an overall assessment
What is this approach particularl...,
What does this interpretation inform,
What happened until gorbachev
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