week 9

Question 1

U.S. President, central to détente, realpolitik, and the Watergate scandal.

Answer 1

Nixon (1969–74)

Question 2

Nixon’s National Security Advisor and Secretary of State; architect of détente and backchannel diplomacy.

Answer 2

Kissinger

Question 3

Soviet leader during détente; signed SALT I and the Helsinki Accords.

Answer 3

Brezhnev (1964-82)

Question 4

Soviet physicist and dissident; authored Progress, Coexistence & Intellectual Freedom (1968), father of soviet H-bomb, argued for peaceful coexistence between US and USSR. Class reading about him.

Answer 4

Sakharov

Question 5

U.S. President who promoted arms control and coexistence; gave the 1963 American University “Peace” speech.

Answer 5

John F. Kennedy (1961-63)

Question 6

U.S. President who escalated the Vietnam War and faced backlash over the “credibility gap” (inability of most Americans to believe what the US presidental administration told them about Vietnam).

Answer 6

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69)

Question 7

name and date of the cultural exchange agreement.

Answer 7

1958 Lacy-Zarubin cultural exchange agreement

Question 8

Russian dissident writer; symbol of resistance to Soviet censorship

Answer 8

Solzhenitsyn

Question 9

Soviet leader who initiated de-Stalinization and early détente

Answer 9

Khrushchev (1953-64)

Question 10

Soviet writers imprisoned for anti-Soviet literature

Answer 10

Daniel and Sinyavsky

Question 11

Soviet dissident who met with Carter in 1977

Answer 11

Bukovsky

Question 12

Black man sentenced to death in 1958; case highlighted U.S. racism internationally.

Answer 12

Wilson

Question 13

U.S. Secretary of State; intervened in the Wilson case for Cold War optics

Answer 13

John Foster Dulles

Question 14

U.S. official; author of NSC-68 calling for Cold War mobilization

Answer 14

Nitze

Question 15

Architect of containment; later critical of U.S. Cold War excesses

Answer 15

George Kennan

Question 16

CIA Director who disclosed agency abuses during the Watergate era

Answer 16

Colby

Question 17

Polish pope; inspired anti-communist resistance in Eastern Europe.

Answer 17

Pope John Paul II

Question 18

JFK’s assassin; former Marine who defected to USSR

Answer 18

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 19

U.S. President who rejected détente and took a hardline on the USSR, ended detente.

Answer 19

Reagan (1981-89)

Question 20

U.S. President who promoted human rights and criticized Soviet repression.

Answer 20

Carter (1977-81)

Question 21

Name and date of the U.S.–Soviet cultural project movie

Answer 21

The Blue Bird (1975)

Question 22

Star of the The Blue Bird

Answer 22

Elizabeth Taylor

Question 23

Amendment that targeted USSR for restricting emigration (esp. Jews). Denied “Most Favored Nation” trade status.

Answer 23

Jackson–Vanik Amendment 1974

Question 24

Geneva Summit: Eisenhower & Khrushchev meet

Answer 24

1955

Question 25

Khrushchev-Kennedy Vienna Summit

Answer 25

1961

Question 26

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.

Answer 26

1963

Question 27

Movie critiquing mutually assured destruction (MAD)

Answer 27

Dr. Strangelove 1964

Question 28

A series of coordinated attacks by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces across South Vietnam. While a military defeat for the communists, significantly eroded public support for the war in the United States.

Answer 28

Tet offensive 1968

Question 29

Declaration stating that the United States would thereafter support allies facing military threats with economic and military aid rather than with ground troops.

Answer 29

1969. Nixon Doctrine.

Question 30

Pentagon papers leaked

Answer 30

1971

Question 31

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), regarding Borders in Europe, Economic Cooperation, and Human Rights.

Answer 31

Helsinki Accords 1975

Question 32

The first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union

Answer 32

Apollo–Soyuz Mission 1975

Question 33

USSR invades Afghanistan—détente ends

Answer 33

1979

Question 34

the plan to withdraw US forces slowly, replacing them with well-supplied Vietnamese

Answer 34

Vietnaminization

Question 35

congressional act limiting presidential military actions without Congressional approval

Answer 35

War Powers Act (1973)

Question 36

Soviet foreign policy principle asserting the USSR’s right to intervene in the affairs of other socialist countries to maintain communist rule and prevent any deviation from Soviet-style socialism

Answer 36

Brezhnev Doctrine 1968

Question 37

instrumental in establishing US-Chinese relations

Answer 37

Kissinger

Question 38

Border clash between China & USSR over island on ____ River. USSR saw China as more dangerous than US

Answer 38

Ussuri River 1969

Question 39

Strategic Arms Limitations Talks

Answer 39

ABM treaty, SALT, SALT II (never ratified)

Question 40

soviet ambassador

Answer 40

dobrynin