Exercise 2. Answer the following questions.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 444.

Exercise 1. Choose proper names from the list to label the pictures. Do you know these persons? So, try to give a short information about each of them.

Lead-in

Unit 13. The Cold War

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961), 2. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953), 3. Joseph Stalin (1941-1953), 4. Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982), 5. Mikhail Gorbachev (1988-1991), 6. Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964), 7. Richard Nixon (1969-1974), 8. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

a) …………………..	b) ……………………	c) ……………………	d) …………………
e) …………………..	f) …………………….	g) ………………….	h) ……………………

1. When did the Cold War begin and end? 2. What were the main periods of the Cold War? 3. How long did the Vietnam War last? What were the result and territorial changes? 4. What does the “Truman Doctrine” mean? 5. What do you know about the European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan)? 6. What American presidents of this period have you remembered? 7. When did the Soviet war in Afghanistan occur? What were its results? 8. What do you know about dissolution of the Soviet Union? 9. What countries invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968? Why? 10. What political movement of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union took place during the 1980s?