Which word, meaning ‘lessening of tensions’, was used to describe improving relations between the USA and the Soviet Union in the 1970s?
Détente
Containment
Glasnost
What name is given to the improved relations between the USA and China in the 1970s?
Vietnamisation
Ping pong diplomacy
In what year was the SALT I agreement signed?
1968
1972
1975
In what year did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
1979
1985
1991
What was the word used to describe Mikhail Gorbachev’s economic freedoms?
Mujahideen
Perestroika
What was the name of the first treaty that reduced rather than limited the number of nuclear weapons the USA and Soviet Union had?
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
In what year did East and West Germany become reunified as a single country?
1989
1990
Which Middle Eastern country took the Americans working in an embassy hostage in 1979?
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
Who was the leader of Iraq during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
Mao Zedong
Ayatollah Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
What was the name of the Gulf War operation to bomb Iraqi military targets?
Desert Shield
Desert Storm
Desert Sabre