What Best Describes the Ruling Policies of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet

question 8

Multiple Choice

What best describes the ruling policies of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union?

• A)They forced the exportation of Russian Communism to Central and South America.
• B)They evoked a "New Thinking" about internal and global politics, as well as an emphasis on openness and reform.
• C)They increased political repression in Russia and in Eastern Europe.
• D)They grew out of Russian misperceptions of United States strengths and failed to appreciate that American military spending and tax reductions under Ronald Reagan had greatly increased American budget deficits.
• E)They led to a reform of Soviet Communism and the permanent strengthening of the Soviet regime.

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Definitions:

Cohesive World

A perception or viewpoint in which elements of an environment or society are seen as interconnected and unified.

Serial Fashion

means performing tasks or processing information one step at a time, in a sequential order.

Object Recognition

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Parallel Processing

The ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality, a concept crucial to understanding how humans can perform multiple tasks at once.