Cold War Policies and Treaties Quiz

Ronald Reagan created

• Detente

• Brinkmanship

• Containment

• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Truman believed in

• Detente to calm tensions

• Brinkmanship to push China into war

• Giving money to Greece and Turkey so they could help themselves

• Containment

Nixon's Detente meant that

• He would push people to the edge of war

• He was more relaxed and trying to calm Cold War tensions

• He would give aid to struggling countries

Jimmy Carter signed the SALT II Treaty, which said:

• The US had to have more weapons than the USSR

• The US could use their weapons whenever they wanted

• The US and USSR would have the same amount of weapons

• None of the above

Eisenhower believed in

• Detente because the president before him was aggressive

• Brinkmanship to show the US's power by pushing other countries to the edge of war

• Staying out of the Cold War entirely

• None of the above

What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)

• An agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to get rid of and stop using nuclear and conventional missiles

• An agreement that the United States would give economic and military aid to countries that were threatened by communism, especially from the Soviet Union after World War II

• Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear weapons both countries could have

• A period in the 1970s when the United States tried to reduce Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and China through diplomacy, trade, and arms agreements