Detente 1963-79

Question 1

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 1

1962

Question 2

Partial test ban treaty

Answer 2

1963

Question 3

Bay of Pigs

Answer 3

1961

Question 4

K removed from power

China atom bomb

Answer 4

1964

Question 5

Nixon president (resigned also)

Answer 5

1969-74

Question 6

Brezhnev Doctrine 1968

Answer 6

Right of USSR to intervene to protect any other communist regime under threat of capitalist forces

Question 7

Artichoke approach China (removed trade controls/relaxed travel restriction)
Recognition of China
Sinosoviet border clashes - Ussuri river

Answer 7

1969

Question 8

‘The week that changed the world’ Nixons visit to China (Moscow summit)
Nixon visits Kremlin
Germanies recognised each other
Basic principles

Answer 8

1972

Question 9

Vietnam

Answer 9

1955-75

Question 10

Johnson

Answer 10

1963-1969

Question 11

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

U.S. Destroyer Maddox fired on by N Vietnamese

Answer 11

“To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.”

1965

Question 12

Kennedy president

Answer 12

1961-63

Question 13

Nixon doctrine 1969

Answer 13

Each country has its own security but the U.S. Would act as an nuclear umbrella
-arming 3rd world States against communism

Question 14

Hallstein doctrine
(WG not recognise EG) and no diplomatic relations with nations who did

Answer 14

1955

Question 15

Non-Aggression Pact

W. Brant (WG) and USSR

Answer 15

1970

Question 16

Berlin agreement

Quadripartite

Answer 16

1971

Question 17

Helsinki accords

Answer 17

1973-75

Question 18

SALT I SALT II

Nixon/Brezhnev

Answer 18

1969-72 (ABM treaty 1972)

1979

Question 19

Glassboro Conference
Kosygin (USSR prime minister) and Johnson
Discussed ME/’nam = no outcome

Answer 19

1967

Question 20

Czech ‘Prague spring’

Nuclear nonproliferation

Answer 20

1968

Question 21

Washington Conference

Answer 21

1973

Question 22

Vladivostok accord

Ford/Brezhnev

Answer 22

1974

Question 23

Ford

Answer 23

1974-77

Question 24

Watergate scandal

Answer 24

1972

Nixon impeachment 1974

Question 25

Palomares incident | 4 hydrogen bombs fell safety devices worked but radiation leaked

Answer 25

1966

Question 26

Angola | Alvor Accords

Answer 26

1975-76 | Transitional government

Question 27

Charter77

Answer 27

1977

Question 28

Afghanistan | Carter installs listening device on USSR border (in China)

Answer 28

1979

Question 29

U.S.-Sino relations normalised | Carter developed 'China card' to counter USSR/Cuban activities in Africa

Answer 29

1978

Question 30

Ostpolitik | Normalisation between E/W Germany

Answer 30

1969