7.4 - What difference did detente make to relations between East and West?

Question 1

Chapter 7.4 - DETENTE

Answer 1

detente

Question 2

What initiated a new period of calm between the East and West?

Answer 2

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 3

What did the deal between the USA and the USSR after the Cuban Missile Crisis include?

Answer 3

• Soviet warheads removed from Cuba
• American missiles removed from Turkey
• Telephone hotline set up to avoid communication delays

Question 4

Why was much-needed social reform abandoned in the USA abandoned in the 1960s and 1970s?

Answer 4

The military investment needed for the Vietnam War

Question 5

What treaty was signed by the USSR, USA and UK in 1963?

Answer 5

The Test Ban Treaty

Question 6

What did the 1963 Test Ban Treaty ban?

Answer 6

Tests of the surface

Question 7

What Treaty was signed in 1968?

Answer 7

The Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question 8

Who were the only countries allowed nuclear weapons in the Non-Proliferation treaty?

Answer 8

USA, Soviet Union, UK, China, France

Question 9

What does SALT stand for?

Answer 9

Strategic Arms Limitations Talks

Question 10

When was SALT 1 signed?

Answer 10

26th May 1972

Question 11

What did SALT 1 do?

Answer 11

Limited the number of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads

Question 12

How many nuclear warheads did the US have in 1972, when SALT was signed and how many did they have in 1980?

Answer 12

1972 - 7601 nuclear warheads
1980 - 10608 nuclear warheads

Question 13

How many nuclear warheads did the USSR have in 1972, when SALT was signed, and how many did they have in 1980?

Answer 13

1972 - 2573 nuclear warheads
1980 - 7480 nuclear warheads

Question 14

What did SALT 2 limit?

Answer 14

Limited the total of both nations’ nuclear forces to 2250 delivery vehicles

Question 15

Why was SALT 2 not ratified by Congress?

Answer 15

Due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979

Question 16

When were the Helsinki Accords signed?

Answer 16

1st August 1975

Question 17

What did the Helsinki Accords finalise?

Answer 17

The post-war borders of Europe

Question 18

What did the Soviets make an agreement about, at the expense of gaining recognition of its territory in Eastern Europe?

Answer 18

Promised to recognise human rights

Question 19

What did the US think of the Soviets’ agreement of respecting human rights?

Answer 19

They thought it was a diplomatic coup

Question 20

What were the Helsinki Accords called at the time?

Answer 20

The new Yalta

Question 21

Who was elected as West German Chancellor in 1969, changing West Germany’s relationship with the Soviet bloc?

Answer 21

Willy Brandt

Question 22

What policy did West German Chancellor Willy Brandt develop?

Answer 22

Ostpolitik

Question 23

What treaty was signed between the USSR and FRG in 1970?

Answer 23

The Moscow Treaty 1970

Question 24

What did the 1970 Moscow Treaty do?

Answer 24

The USSR and FRG agreed that they have no territorial claims against each other

Question 25

What two treaty was signed in 1970 as part of Ostpolitik?

Answer 25

The Warsaw Treaty

Question 26

What treaty was signed in 1973 as part of Ostpolitik?

Answer 26

The Prague Treaty

Question 27

What did the Warsaw and Prague treaties?

Answer 27

They were similar to the Moscow Treaty 1970, but for Poland and Czechoslovakia

Question 28

What did the Four Power Berlin Treaty of 1971 allow?

Answer 28

West Berliners allowed to visit East Berlin

Question 29

What treaty was signed in 1972 in which both the GDR and FRG recognised each other?

Answer 29

The Basic Treaty 1972

Question 30

What did both the FRG and GDR join in 1973 after the signing of the Basic Treaty?

Answer 30

The United Nations