Question

Select all the following reasons that led to the fall of the Soviet Union

Question 5 options:

Mikhail Gorbachev was a young, charismatic leader that pursued more open ideas compared to the aggressive totalitarian hand that most Soviet leaders followed.


The United States overthrew the Soviet government and put in place a democratic government


Glasnost was put into practice and brought open changes to the government that allowed its citizens to criticize their government without fear of imprisonment


Perestroika was put into practice and gave power back to local managers, which allowed them to make decisions of what was best for their farms, factories, and businesses


The loss of key wars like the Korean War and Vietnam War led citizens to overthrow the weak Soviet government.


Democratization was put into practice and opened the political system that allowed voters to choose their candidates for office

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How did the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan weaken their global standing?

Question 4 options:

Many nations felt that the Soviet Union was greedy for wanting another satellite state


The Soviet Army had been considered unbeatable, until they lost the war against Afghanistan


The United States invaded the Soviet Union while they were busy invading Afghanistan


The Soviet Union took many soldiers from Afghanistan as prisoner and would not release them.

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Why did the Soviet Union and China end their alliance?

Question 3 options:

China was looking to “step out” of the Soviet Union’s shadow and become a communist power


China refused to share their nuclear secrets, which upset the Soviet Union


China was spreading their own version of communism through Africa and Asia


All of the above

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What was the idea of destalinization?

Question 2 options:

The purging of communism in the Soviet Union


The purging of all satellite states


The purging of all political rivals in the Soviet Union


The purging and denouncing of the country’s memory of Stalin
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Why was it important that the U.S. switched from brinkmanship to détente during the Cold War?

Question 1 options:

It was the policy that immediately brought about an alliance between the Soviet Union and the United States


It gave China power to influence policy decisions in the United States when dealing with the Soviet Union


It allowed presidents to take a more flexible approach to dealing with communism and the Soviet Union by looking for realistic outcomes


It strengthened U.S. military presence in Eastern Europe

Answer 1

1) Mikhail Gorbachev was a young, charismatic leader that pursued more open ideas compared to the aggressive totalitarian hand that most Soviet leaders followed/Glasnost was put into practice and brought open changes to the government that allowed its citizens to criticize their government without fear of imprisonment/Democratization was put into practice and opened the political system that allowed voters to choose their candidates for office.

2) Many nations felt that the Soviet Union was greedy for wanting another satellite state/The Soviet Army had been considered unbeatable, until they lost the war against Afghanistan.

3) China was looking to "step out" of the Soviet Union's shadow and become a communist power/China was spreading their own version of communism through Africa and Asia.

4) The purging and denouncing of the country's memory of Stalin.

Step-by-step explanation:

1) Mikhail Gorbachev promoted a series of reforms on the idea that Soviet system can be reformated to combat corruption and inefficiency in economics and allowing the softening of the most critical aspects of totalitarian control of the State over Soviet society. Economic reform were a disaster and Soviet people responded with the election of Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia.

2) Because Western countries found the Soviet intervention as an imperalistic intervention and did a boycott against the USSR, besides the Afghan war demonstrated the lack of capacity of Soviet millitary on irregular warfare.

3) China refused the De-Stalinization policies promoted by Nikita Khruschev and accused USSR to be 'revisionist' state. In the meantime, China supported guerrillas and communist movements in Asia and Africa.

4) The destalinization was a policy promoted by Nikita Khruschev, succesor of Iosiv Stalin, which consist on the denounce of cult of personality to Stalin.

Answer 2

Reasons that led to the fall of the Soviet Union:

1. Mikhail Gorbachev was a young, charismatic leader that pursued more open ideas compared to the aggressive totalitarian hand that most Soviet leaders followed.
2. The United States overthrew the Soviet government and put in place a democratic government
3. Glasnost was put into practice and brought open changes to the government that allowed its citizens to criticize their government without fear of imprisonment
4. Perestroika was put into practice and gave power back to local managers, which allowed them to make decisions of what was best for their farms, factories, and businesses

How did the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan weaken their global standing?

4. Many nations felt that the Soviet Union was greedy for wanting another satellite state

Why did the Soviet Union and China end their alliance?

1. China was looking to step out of the Soviet Union´s shadow and become a communist power

What was the idea of destalinization?

4.The purging and denouncing of the country´s memory of Stalin

Why was it important that the U.S switched from brinkmanship to détente during the Cold War?

1. it was the policy that immediately brought about an alliance between the Soviet Union and the United States.