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What replaced the Soviet Union in 1992?
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
In what year did Gorbachev resign as leader of the USSR?
1991
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
In which country did the 1989 Velvet Revolution take place?
Czechoslovakia
Which treaty did Gorbachev and Regan sign in Washington 1987?
INF Treaty
Which 1986 disaster represented a weakening Soviet Union?
Chernobyl
Which two policies did Gorbachev introduce to reform the Soviet Union?
Glasnost and Perestroika
What was Able Archer 83?
A series of NATO military exercises
In what ways did the US intervene in Poland to support Solidarity movement of the 1980s?
US placed a trade embargo on Poland
What was the aim of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia?
To hold the government accountable for its actions, mostly human rights violations
Alongside economic assistance, what else did the USSR provide to Vietnam?
Military assistance
Which organisation did Vietnam join in 1978 to boost its economy?
COMECON
In what year did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
1979
After the 1973 coup in Chile, how did the US show support for the new Pinochet regime?
By approving a loan for the purchase of US wheat
In 1971, who made a secret trip to China?
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
What does MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What did Ostpolitik seek to normalise?
Relations between the FRG and GDR
Which nuclear weapons did the START agreements set limits on?
ICBMs
Which nuclear program did Regan announce in 1983?
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
The formal negotiations of SALT began after which president took office?
Richard Nixon
Which 1968 treaty agreed to prevent the spread of Nuclear Weapons?
Non-Proliferation Treaty
What term is used to describe the easing of tensions between the two superpowers?
Detente
Which leader of the USSR oversaw the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?
Brezhnev
Which Czech leader announced a series of reforms known as the Prague Spring?
Dubcek
The USA wanted to keep a brutal regime in Guatemala to show it would not allow leftist movements to spread in Central America: True or False
True
Which policy is the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis an example of?
Brinkmanship
After which 1958 crisis did Sino-Soviet relations deteriorate?
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Soviet Union was willing to go to war with the USA over conflicts in China: True or False?
False
In what year was the Berlin Wall constructed?
1961
How did Kennedy change US policy towards Berlin when he took office from Eisenhower?
Changed from Eisenhower wanting to work with Khrushchev to Kennedy increasing defence spending and sent troops to blockade West Berlin
Which superpower ended up losing influence in the Congo after miscalculations with the UN Secretary General?
USSR
What caused the Congo army to mutiny against Belgian troops in 1960?
Better pay and opportunities
Where did the USSR turn its interest to after the Suez Crisis?
The Middle East
What did the USA and Britain withdraw funding from, subsequently causing the Suez crisis of 1956?
Aswan Dam
Which foreign policy implemented by Eisenhower marked a change in the policy of containment?
Rollback
Who appealed to the UN for Hungarian neutrality during the 1956 uprising?
Nagy
Who gave a Secret Speech in 1956?
Khrushchev
At which two conferences were the principles of the Non Aligned Movement developed?
Bandung Conference and Belgrade Conference
In 1954 in which country did the CIA overthrow the democratically elected Arbenz?
Guatemala
The USA viewed the Korean War as a success - True or False?
True
The Korean War was the first type of what war?
Proxy War
Which secret document stating that the US needed to maintain substantial armed forces contributed to the outbreak of the Korean War?
NSC 68
Which two Asian countries did the USA consider in its sphere of influence in early 1950
Taiwan and Japan
In what year did the CCP defeat the nationalists in China?
1949
What types of countries mostly made up the Non-Aligned Movement?
Former colonies
Which country was expelled from Cominform in 1948 causing a split in relations with the USSR?
Yugoslavia
How did Stalin want to establish security in Europe?
By creating satellite states
Which historians blame the origins of the Cold War on Soviet Expansionism?
Orthodox
Which organisation was initially designed to stop the spread of communism before focusing on a mutual defence agreement?
NATO
In what year was the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) established?
1949
What names were given to the merging of the Allies zones leading to the Berlin Blockade?
Bizonia and Trizonia
What was the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan and ERP?
COMECON
What were the two words used by Churchill in his iron curtain speech to describe the two new divides in Europe
totalitarian and free
Who stated in a 1946 telegram that Soviet foreign policy was grounded in expansionism?
George Kennan
The percentages agreement between Churchill and Stalin divided Europe into what?
Spheres of influence
In which conference did the Allied powers agree to continue the war against Japan?
Cairo Conference
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