Cold War
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- Q1Who became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 and agreed to resume arms control talks?Boris YeltsinMikhail GorbachevNikita KrushchevDolph Lundgren30s
- Q2What did Reagan launch the largest peacetime buildup of in American history?the militarythe bills in CongressU.S. oil reservessurplus wheat30s
- Q3The worst disaster in NASA’s history was the explosion and deaths of the crew on the space shuttleSkylab.Mir.Challenger.Columbia.30s
- Q4A new sound of the 1980s had rhythmic lyrics frequently focusing on the African American experience in the inner city and was calledpunk rock.rap.rock ‘n’ roll.alternative.30s
- Q5young, urban professionals who were ambitious, and hardworking moneymakers.JunkiesPongYuppiesSierra Club30s
- Q6nicknamed “Star Wars,” it called for the development of weapons that could intercept and destroy incoming missilesMirChallengerStrategic Defense InitiativeSpace X30s
- Q7A US Senator who led a movement to remove communists from the US State Department and the entire US Government.Lyndon JohnsonJoseph McCarthyRobert KennedyRonald Reagan30s
- Q8In May of 1961, he became the first American man in space.Bruce JennerLaikaJohn GlenAlan Shepard30s
- Q9It was the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit.SputnikVoyagerExplorerDiscovery30s
- Q10What event was a "symbolic end" to the Cold War?Bay of PigsVietnam WarCuban Missile CrisisFall of the Berlin Wall30s