Detente is a time of easing tensions or strained relations especially between two nations.
The End of the Cold War

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Noah Jenkins
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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True
False
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which U.S. President traveled to China and then later to the USSR, helping ease tensions between the countries?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the purpose of the SALT I Treaty?
A treaty to demilitarize the Berlin wall, allowing free trade between the two.
To decrease the deployment of ICBM's, antiballistic missiles, and stockpiles of other powerful military weapons.
To join East and West Germany into a single united country.
Both the U.S. and USSR reached an agreement to no longer use nuclear weapons of any kind.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which President was responsible for proposing and then ultimately withdrawing from the SALT II Treaty from Senate consideration?
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why was the SALT II Treaty withdrawn?
The USSR imposed high tariffs on Chinese goods
The USSR would not dismantle the Berlin Wall.
President Nixon was impeached and it was rejected.
The USSR invaded Afghanistan
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Who was the Soviet President in 1985 that proposed the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika?
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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After realizing the USSR could not outspend the Reagan administration, newly elected President Gorbachev proposed Perestroika to help the economy catch up to other world superpowers.
True
False
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