Chapter 19

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 said of Mikhail Gorbachev, 'We can do business together'?

a) Margaret Thatcher

b) George Bush

c) George Shultz

d) Ronald Reagan

What was the term used for Gorbachev's policy of greater 'openness' in Soviet society?

a) Perestroika

b) De-ideologization

c) Glasnost

d) Common home

In what month did the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan?

a) April 1988

b) February 1989

c) September 1991

d) April 1992

Who was the leader of the South West African People's Organisation when Namibia won its independence?

a) Eduardo dos Santos

b) Jonas Savimbi

c) Sam Nujoma

d) Cuita Cuanavale

Which east European country opened its borders in May 1989, triggering a mass exodus from East Germany to the West?

a) Czechoslovakia

b) Poland

c) Austria

d) Hungary