From Cold War to detente 1962-81

Question 1

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 1

October 1962

Question 2

Test Ban treaty- Moscow

Answer 2

5th August 1963

Question 3

Kennedy’s assassination

Answer 3

November 1963

Question 4

Khrushchev removed from office/ replaced by Brezhnev

Answer 4

1964

Question 5

China gets A-bomb

Answer 5

October 1964

Question 6

Johnson becomes President

Answer 6

1964

Question 7

US ‘rolling thunder’ bombing of North Vietnam

Answer 7

February 1965

Question 8

6 Day Arab-Israeli War

Answer 8

June 1967

Question 9

The Prague Spring

Answer 9

1968

Question 10

The Non-proliferation treaty

Answer 10

June 1968

Aim to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons

Question 11

Nixon becomes president

Answer 11

January 1969

Question 12

Nixon Doctrine

Answer 12

1969

America should only fight when national interests are at stake
Guam Doctrine in Vietnam- Will hand fighting to South Vietnamese

Question 13

German-Polish Treaty

Answer 13

December 1970

Acceptance of German-Polish borders- Order Neisse

Question 14

Hotline set up between white house and Kremlin

Answer 14

1963

Question 15

4 Power Agreement on Berlin

Answer 15

September 1971

Saw Recognition of East Berlin as part of the GDR. Freer movement of people between East and West Berlin

Question 16

Willy Brandt- Beginning of Ostpolitik

Answer 16

October 1969

Question 17

Nixon visits China

Answer 17

February 1972

Meetings with Mao Zedong

Question 18

Berlin Transit Agreement

Answer 18

May 1972

Access to and from West Berlin, East Germans could visit West Berlin for family emergencies

Question 19

The Basic Treaty

Answer 19

December 1972

Sovereignty of both the FRG and GDR

Question 20

Nixon-Brezhnev Summit/ SALT 1

Answer 20

May 1972

Question 21

Nixon-Brezhnev Summit Washington

Answer 21

June 1973

Agreement on Agriculture, cultural exchange and transport

Question 22

Middle East War (Arab-Israeli)

Answer 22

October 1973

Yom Kippur War- Egyptian president Sadat attacked Israel to regain Sinai dessert lost during 6 day war 1967

Question 23

Nixon-Brezhnev Summit/ SALT 2

Answer 23

June-July 1974

Question 24

Ford-Brezhnev Summit/ Vladivostok Accord

Answer 24

November 1974

SALT 2 plans

Question 25

Helsinki Accords

Answer 25

July-August 1975

35 countries talk about European security

Question 26

US withdraw from Vietnam/ Collapse of South Vietnamese

Answer 26

1973

South Vietnamese collapse 1975

Question 27

Angola

Answer 27

1975-76

Question 28

Mao dies

Answer 28

1976

Question 29

Carter becomes President

Answer 29

1977

Question 30

Ogaden War (Ethio-Somali War in Africa)

Answer 30

1977

Question 31

Vienna Summit with Carter/ Brezhnev

Answer 31

June 1979

SALT 2 treaty signed

Question 32

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Answer 32

25th December 1979

Question 33

The Carter Doctrine

Answer 33

January 1980

Stop Soviet expansion in Africa/ Persian Gulf and protect oil supplies

Question 34

Reagan becomes President

Answer 34

1981

Question 35

Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 35

1968

Declared that the SU had the right to intervene in any neighbouring country where socialism was threatened