What is meant by the term détente?
Prepare for war
Nuclear alert
Relaxation of tensions
What does SALT stand for?
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Soviet Army Legion Training
Save American Lives Together
In which year was Afghanistan invaded by the USSR?
2001
1979
1980
What was the name given to the anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan?
Mujahideen
Taliban
IRA
Which Olympic Games did the USA boycott in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
Athens
San Francisco
Moscow
What was the nickname of President Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative?
Star Wars
Star Trek
Star Killer
Which of the following was not one of Gorbachev's reforming policies?
Glasnost
Izvestia
Perestroika
In what year did the Berlin Wall come down?
1990
1989
1991
What was the name of the Polish anti-communist trade union?
Solidarity
NUT
Centra
In what year did Gorbachev announce the end of the Soviet Union?
1917