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Cold War Thaws (Chapter 17.5)
Cold War Thaws (Chapter 17.5)
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1
Under US President Richard Nixon ______ replaced brinkmanship as the way to handle the Cold War
Nuclear War
Detente
Treaties
Alliance
2
Khrushchev started a policy called _______,or purging the USSR of Stalin's memory and influence
dememorization
destalinization
desalination
destruction
3
USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in order to keep them from rejecting Communism, called the ________
New Running Man
Brezhnev Doctrine
The Not So Fast Invasion
The Warsaw Pact Expansion
4
The willingness of the US and the USSR to go to the very edge of war during the Cold war is
brinksmanship
aggressive diplomacy
one-up-manship
stirring the pot
5
In the Cold War, the USSR kept a firm grip on which satellite nations (countries it influenced)
Poland Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary and Albania
Romania and Bulgaria
6
Which IS NOT an example of Brinkmanship between the US and USSR
U-2 Spy Plan Incident
The Vietnam War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The assassination of JFK in 1963
7
____________ took power in the USSR once Nikita Khrushchev faded from the picture.
Vladimir Lenin
Leonid Brezhnev
Ronald Reagan
Richard Sherman
8
Nikita Khrushchev lost power in the USSR after his embarrassing "defeat" during the __________
Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba Libre Incedent
Cuban BBQ
9
Even though _________ was a former Communist ally of the USSR, the relationship soured by 1960
Francia
Poland
China
New Zealand
10
_____________ was the next satellite nation to attempt to loosen the tight grip of the USSR
Austria-Hungary
France
Czechoslovakia
Burkina Faso
11
________________ became the leader of the USSR after Stalin died
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Krushchev
JFK
Ronald Reagan
12
The SALT I treaty limited the number of _______________ each country could have
Bombers
Submarines
Tanks
Nuclear Weapons
13
Soviet leaders after Stalin were more
moderate
and lessened their grip on satellite nations
True
False
14
In October 1956, protesters under Imre Nagy, overthrew the soviet government in ____________
Hungary
Australia
Ireland
The United States
15
_____________ is famous for visiting Communist countries and signing the SALT treaty
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt