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