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SALT 1...SALT stands for...?
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Strategies Against Limiting Terror
Stopping Armouries and Limiting Them
Serious Arms Limitation Talks
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SALT 2 agreed to...? Which one is NOT true?
It was agreed but never ratified by the American government
To aim to have further talks
To get rid of all nuclear submarines
It agreed to limit nuclear weapons even more
3
The Helsinki Accords of 1975. Which one is NOT true?
Areas discussed were borders, cooperation and human rights
The USSR let Pres. Ford to inspect all their missile sites
33 nations attended the meetings
A joint Soviet American space mission was agreed
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Who is this?
Carter
Eisenhower
Nixon
Reagan
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The Reagan Doctrine was to...?
Give nuclear weapons to all states surrounding the USSR
Give communist states cash in return for farm products
Give help to anti communists to overthrow communist states
Reduce the size of the US Army if the USSR did the same
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The first satellite state to elect a non communist government was...?
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Bulgaria
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One outcome of the SALT 1 agreement was...?
Britain agreed to be neutral
France got rid of its nuclear weapons
The Americans agreed to leave Vietnam
Nixon visited Moscow and Brezhnev visited Washington
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SDI or Star Wars (as it was sometimes called) aimed to...?
Use satellites to launch nuclear missiles at the USSR
Use satellites to shoot down nuclear missiles
Use satellites to broadcast propaganda to communist states
Use satellites to jam all radio communications of the USSR
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Who is this?
Nagy
Dubcek
Rakosi
Novotny
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Detente means...?
Peace between two groups previously hostile to each other
Having talks
Being close to war
An agreement to take down tents
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Ronald Reagan introduced a new initiative which upset the balance of power called...?
SVI
SDI
SDD
SD2
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Who is this?
Eisenhower
Nixon
Brezhnev
Khrushchev
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The Cold War ended with a series of summits between Reagan and Gorbachev.Which one is NOT real?
Washington 1987
Reykjavik 1986
London 1989
Moscow 1988
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Which one of these was NOT a consequence of the end of detente?
The Americans boycotted the Moscow Olympics
SALT 2 was abandoned
The Soviets also invaded Iran
The USA supplied arms to Afghan rebels
15
Non Communist rebels who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan were called...?
Al Queda
Afghani Brothers of God
Mujahideen
ISIS
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The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 because they said...?
To stop them building a nuclear bomb
They had to root out terrorists such ISIS
To stop the Afghans invading the USSR
To support the government there
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What is M.A.D. theory?
Nuclear weapons need to be dismantled by all nations
Nuclear weapons are mad so the world is doomed
No one is mad enough to have a nuclear war so peace is kept
Must Add Dynamite...meaning nuclear weapons need extra power
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Gorbachev wanted a better form of communism. To get this he introduced 'Openness' or...?
Perestroika
Nietda
Moscoviteski
Glasnost
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SALT 1. The agreement agreed to...? ( Two answers)
Get rid of all nuclear weapons
Allowing both sides to have one army each on the others soil
Limiting certain types of nuclear weapons
No nuclear weapons on the seabed
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Who is this...?
The Polish anti communist, Walesa
The Soviet leader who took power in 1985, Gorbachev
The American chief advisor to Reagan, Casper Weinberger
The British Secretary of Defence, Lord Carrington
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The end of the Brezhnev Doctrine meant that...?
Soviet troops would invade a satellite state if they saw fit
Soviet troops would be paid in dollars
Soviet troops would not invade a satellite state as before
Nuclear weapons would now be newly targeted each day
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The USSR itself broke apart and became separate countries in...?
June 1992
December 1992
December 1991
September 1991
