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  • Which two Asian countries did the USA consider in its sphere of influence in early 1950
    Taiwan and Japan
  • What replaced the Soviet Union in 1992?
    Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
  • Which organisation did Vietnam join in 1978 to boost its economy?
    COMECON
  • What term is used to describe the easing of tensions between the two superpowers?
    Detente
  • What was Able Archer 83?
    A series of NATO military exercises
  • The percentages agreement between Churchill and Stalin divided Europe into what?
    Spheres of influence
  • Which organisation was initially designed to stop the spread of communism before focusing on a mutual defence agreement?
    NATO
  • Who appealed to the UN for Hungarian neutrality during the 1956 uprising?
    Nagy
  • What did the USA and Britain withdraw funding from, subsequently causing the Suez crisis of 1956?
    Aswan Dam
  • Which two policies did Gorbachev introduce to reform the Soviet Union?
    Glasnost and Perestroika
  • 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
  • Alongside economic assistance, what else did the USSR provide to Vietnam?
    Military assistance
  • In 1971, who made a secret trip to China?
    US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
  • Which superpower ended up losing influence in the Congo after miscalculations with the UN Secretary General?
    USSR
  • In what year did the CCP defeat the nationalists in China?
    1949
  • In what year did Gorbachev resign as leader of the USSR?
    1991
  • What did Ostpolitik seek to normalise?
    Relations between the FRG and GDR
  • The Soviet Union was willing to go to war with the USA over conflicts in China: True or False?
    False
  • In what year did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
    1979
  • Which foreign policy implemented by Eisenhower marked a change in the policy of containment?
    Rollback
  • In what year was the Berlin Wall constructed?
    1961
  • Which policy is the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis an example of?
    Brinkmanship
  • Which secret document stating that the US needed to maintain substantial armed forces contributed to the outbreak of the Korean War?
    NSC 68
  • What types of countries mostly made up the Non-Aligned Movement?
    Former colonies
  • 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
  • The formal negotiations of SALT began after which president took office?
    Richard Nixon
  • At which two conferences were the principles of the Non Aligned Movement developed?
    Bandung Conference and Belgrade Conference
  • After which 1958 crisis did Sino-Soviet relations deteriorate?
    Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
  • Who gave a Secret Speech in 1956?
    Khrushchev
  • Which 1968 treaty agreed to prevent the spread of Nuclear Weapons?
    Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • In 1954 in which country did the CIA overthrow the democratically elected Arbenz?
    Guatemala
  • In which conference did the Allied powers agree to continue the war against Japan?
    Cairo Conference
  • Which country was expelled from Cominform in 1948 causing a split in relations with the USSR?
    Yugoslavia
  • Which nuclear program did Regan announce in 1983?
    Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
  • Which leader of the USSR oversaw the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?
    Brezhnev
  • Which nuclear weapons did the START agreements set limits on?
    ICBMs
  • What does MAD stand for?
    Mutually Assured Destruction
  • In what year was the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) established?
    1949
  • What were the two words used by Churchill in his iron curtain speech to describe the two new divides in Europe
    totalitarian and free
  • Which 1986 disaster represented a weakening Soviet Union?
    Chernobyl
  • In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
    1989
  • In what ways did the US intervene in Poland to support Solidarity movement of the 1980s?
    US placed a trade embargo on Poland
  • What caused the Congo army to mutiny against Belgian troops in 1960?
    Better pay and opportunities
  • Which treaty did Gorbachev and Regan sign in Washington 1987?
    INF Treaty
  • What was the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan and ERP?
    COMECON
  • The Korean War was the first type of what war?
    Proxy War
  • The USA viewed the Korean War as a success - True or False?
    True
  • Who stated in a 1946 telegram that Soviet foreign policy was grounded in expansionism?
    George Kennan
  • 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
  • In which country did the 1989 Velvet Revolution take place?
    Czechoslovakia
  • 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
  • Where did the USSR turn its interest to after the Suez Crisis?
    The Middle East
  • What was the aim of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia?
    To hold the government accountable for its actions, mostly human rights violations
  • Which Czech leader announced a series of reforms known as the Prague Spring?
    Dubcek
  • What names were given to the merging of the Allies zones leading to the Berlin Blockade?
    Bizonia and Trizonia
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