American foreign policy advisers in the Cold War years were divided into which two main groups?
Containers and eliminators
Hawks and doves
Easterners and Westerners
Which important position did Walter Ulbricht hold in 1960?
East German leader
Leader of the Republicans in the US Congress
Mayor of West Berlin
What did it mean to describe Germany as 'asymmetrical' in 1960?
The Western part was much more prosperous than the East
The Eastern part was much larger than the West
The two parts of Germany were evenly matched
Where were the American missiles that Khrushchev claimed he was matching by putting Soviet missiles in Cuba?
Poland
China
Turkey
Which US President was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Lyndon B Johnson
John F Kennedy
Richard Nixon
What action did Kennedy take to manage the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962?
To destroy Soviet missile bases in Cuba
To invade Cuba
To blockade Cuba
What was the impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis for the policy of 'brinkmanship'?
Brinkmanship was seen as too dangerous because of the risk of nuclear war
Brinkmanship had worked because the Soviets kept their missiles on Cuba
Brinkmanship had succeeded because Castro was no longer leader of Cuba
What was the political system that the Czech leader Alexander Dubcek wanted to introduce to his country?
Soviet troops for security
Socialism with a human face
No freedom of speech
What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
The loosening of Soviet control in Eastern Europe
The refusal to let Eastern Europe move away from communism
The active pursuit of world communism
Which event showed the spirit of détente in 1972?
The dismantling of NATO
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
SALT 1