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HSC Cold War detente questions
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1
Relations between which countries improved during detente?
USA with China and the USSR
USSR with China and the USA
China with the USSR and USA
2
What occurred in 1968 that made the US increasingly eager to extract itself from Vietnam?
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Tet Offensive
Invasion of Saigon
Mai Lai Village Massacre
3
What was the first instance of detente?
the hot-line between Moscow and Washington
Kissinger's "Shuttle Diplomacy"
Nixon's policy of linkage
Khrushchev's resignation
4
What war was the USA committed to and whom did they think the USSR could put pressure on?
Vietnam - North
Korea - South
Korea - North
Vietnam - South
5
Due to the Soviets achieving "parity", what did this allow both sides to negotiate?
dividing North & South Vietnam
peace talks
arms reduction
6
What does "Detente" mean?
reducing tension
increasing tension
7
What was Kissinger's "linkage"?
"Linking" both the economies of the USSR and USA
Baiting the USSR with western technology 2 temper Comintern
Baiting the USSR with technology to end Comintern
Brokering trade agreements between NATO and the Warsaw Pact
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What were the 3 factors which the US no longer had which led them to pursue detente?
Power of the US $, Advantage in Space, Cold War Consensus
Nuclear superiority, power of the US $, Cold War Consensus
Popular support, economic superiority, Good leadership
Cold War Consensus, unified leadership, advantage of arms
9
What key event in the Cold War led to detente?
Prague Spring
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Berlin Wall
10
what was draining the economies of both the USA and USSR which led to detente?
Vietnam War
military spending
Afghanistan
poor leadership
11
By the late 1960's what had the USSR achieved that would result in MAD?
Triad System
Mutually Assured Destruction
Parity
ICBM's
12
Who did Mao and China view as its #1 enemy?
USSR
USA
Taiwan
Vietnam
13
Tensions with whom led the USSR into a relationship with the USA?
Vietnam
Afghanistan
Czechoslovakia
China
14
What did the USSR believe detente could stimulate?
An end to the Cold War
Comintern to flourish
Capitalism rotting from within
East-West trade
15
What did Nixon play against one another?
Mao and Brezhnev
The Soviet-Sino Split
The Simo-Soviet Split
The Sino-Soviet Split
