Chapter 16

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Who was the author of 'The Road to Serfdom' which, with its critique of state intervention, was an influence on Ronald Reagan's economic policies?

a) Friedrich Hayek

b) Milton Friedman

c) Paul Kennedy

d) Leo Strauss

Who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union in 1982?

a) Mikhail Gorbachev

b) Andrei Gromyko

c) Konstantin Chernenko

d) Yuri Andropov

What major event happened in Poland on 13 December 1981?

a) Official recognition of the Solidarity union

b) Declaration of martial law

c) Launch of a strike in the Gdansk shipyard

d) First papal visit by John Paul II

What did President Reagan propose in his speech at Eureka College in May 1982?

a) Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

b) Strategic Defense Initiative

c) Star Wars programme

d) The 'zero option'

Of which country was Zia ul-Haq the leader in the early 1980s, giving support to the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan?

a) Egypt

b) Pakistan

c) Iran

d) Iraq