Detente

What does MAD stand for?

• Mutually Assured Destruction
• Men Are Difficult
• Me And David
• Mutually Assured Dentistry

What does détente mean?

• Period of peace between the superpowers
• How to cook your spaghetti
• Period of conflict between the superpowers
• When you drive into a lamp post

Why did both countries want détente at this time?

• Spending too much on the arms race
• They decided to be nicer
• To make the other side look bad<br />
• As their Mums were very cross with them

When was SALT 1 signed?

• 1972
• 1973
• 1974
• 1975

What was the agreements made between the SALT 1 and SALT 2 talks called?

• Helsinki Accords
• Helsinki Agreement
• Helsinki Treaty
• Helsinki Doctrine

Which of the three 'baskets' did the USSR not agree to?

• human rights
• borders between countries
• international relations
• bread

Who were the leaders of the USA and the USSR in 1975?

• Carter and Brezhnev
• Kennedy ad Brezhnev
• Nixon and Brezhnev
• Truman and Brezhnev

What did the USSR do to Afghanistan in 1979?

• Invaded
• Built a wall
• Set up a naval blockade
• Cut off trade routes

which of these are examples of successes of detente?

• MAD

• The Limited Test Ban Treaty

• The Outer Space Treaty

• SALT 1

What did the US secretly agree to do, which ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Remove missiles from Turkey

• Pay the Soviet Union money

• Stop spying in the East

• Agree to the Berlin Wall