Detente & Sino-US Agreements

This is the process of easing tensions between superpowers, especially with regard to nuclear weapons.

True or False: The move toward Detente began with the rule of Khrushchev and Eisenhower.

• True

• False

Which US president incorporated the use of nuclear weapons into military planning, rather than just political diplomacy?

• Kennedy

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Nixon

The 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in the wake of

• the building of the Berlin Wall

• the Vietnam War

• the Korean War

• the Cuban Missile Crisis

Which of the following is true of the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty?

• The US, USSR, and Britain agreed to keep nuclear technology among those who had it and not share it with other countries

• The US, USSR, and Britain agreed to not develop new nuclear weapons.

• The US and the USSR agreed to reduce the nuclear stockpiles.

• The US and the USSR agreed not to test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, space, or underwater.

Which of the following agreements focused on limiting the types of missiles that could be used by the US and USSR?

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

• SALT I

• SALT II

• Helsinki Accords

Which of the following was NOT a "basket" of the Helsinki Accords?

• Cooperation in science, technology, and environmental concerns

• Global security

• Trade negotiations

• Human rights

Why did West German leader Willy Brandt believe that rapprochement with East Germany was necessary?

• East Germany was threatening to invade West Germany

• It was the only potential path for future German reunification

• He wanted East Germany to join NATO

• The Berlin Wall was torn down, demonstrating the failure of communism in the East

West Germany's policy of establishing diplomatic ties with East Germany and the USSR with the goal of eventual reunification of Germany was known as

• Ostpolitik

• Oder-Neisse

• Detente

• START negotiations

Which two leaders are most associate with the period of detente during the Cold War?

• Stalin and Eisenhower

• Kennedy and Khrushchev

• Brezhnev and Nixon

• Reagan and Gorbachev