Vocabulary 12.5

Question 1

Question. 1987 agreement between the US and the Soviet Union that eliminated some weapon systems and allowed for on-site inspections of military installations?

Answer 1

Answer. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Question 2

Question. The restructuring of the economy and the government instituted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s?

Answer 2

Answer. Perestroika

Question 3

Question. The open discussion of social problems that was permitted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s?

Answer 3

Answer. Glasnost

Question 4

Question. A proposed defense system popularly known as Star Wars, intended to protect the US against missile attacks?

Answer 4

Answer. Strategic Defense Initiative

Question 5

Question. Russian politician who was the last president of the Soviet Union before the country’s collapse in 1991?

Answer 5

Answer. Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 6

Question. American politician and the 40th president of the US; his presidency focused on arms control and the end of the Cold War?

Answer 6

Answer. Ronald Reagan

Question 7

Question. 39th president of the US; his focus on human rights brought the end to détente as Cold War policy?

Answer 7

Answer. Jimmy Carter

Question 8

Question. 38th president of the US; he became president after the resignation of Richard Nixon and continued Nixon’s Cold War policies?

Answer 8

Answer. Gerald Ford

Question 9

Question. A 5-year agreement between the US and the Soviet Union signed in 1972 that limited the nations’ numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles?

Answer 9

Answer. SALT Treaty

Question 10

Question. The flexible policy involving a willingness to negotiate and easing of tensions that was adopted by President Richard Nixon and his advisor Henry Kissinger in their dealings with communist nations?

Answer 10

Answer. Détente

Question 11

Question. A foreign policy advanced by Henry Kissinger and the Nixon administration based on consideration of a nation’s power rather than its ideas or moral principles?

Answer 11

Answer. Realpolitik

Question 12

Question. German-born political scientist and Secretary of State under President Nixon; he believed in Realpolitik and helped create the détente policy?

Answer 12

Answer. Henry Kissinger

Question 13

Question. 37th president of the US; he championed the policy of détente and visited both China and the Soviet Union?

Answer 13

Answer. Richard Nixon

Question 14

Question. Treaty signed in 1968 under which nuclear powers agreed not to sell or give nuclear weapons to any other country, and non-nuclear powers promised not to develop or acquire such weapons?

Answer 14

Answer. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question 15

Question. The 1963 treaty in which the US and the Soviet Union agreed not to conduct nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere?

Answer 15

Answer. Limited Test Ban Treaty

Question 16

Question. A communication link established in 1963 to allow the leaders of the US and the Soviet Union to contact each other in times of crisis?

Answer 16

Answer. Hotline

Question 17

Question. A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, built by the communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West?

Answer 17

Answer. Berlin Wall

Question 18

Question. Communist political leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008; he helped overthrow the Cuban government in 1959 and seized control of the country, exercising total control of the government and economy?

Answer 18

Answer. Fidel Castro

Question 19

Question. 36th president of the US; he took office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

Answer 19

Answer. Lyndon Baines Johnson

Question 20

Question. The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control?

Answer 20

Answer. Domino theory

Question 21

Question. A policy developed during the Kennedy administration that involved preparing for a variety of military responses to international crises rather than focusing on the use of nuclear weapons?

Answer 21

Answer. Flexible response

Question 22

Question. 35th president of the US; during his administration, the US faced off with the Soviet Union in Cuba and Berlin?

Answer 22

Answer. John F. Kennedy