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6. What was 'Open Skies"?

  • A proposal by President Eisenhower, to allow aerial surveillance of both the USSR's and America's military capabilities
  • A proposal by Khrushchev, that stopped the flight of military planes
  • A Bombing Campaign
  • A proposal by Kennedy, that placed no limitation of nuclear weapons

7. When was the Berlin Blockade?

  • 1948
  • 1950
  • 1947
  • 1949

8. What was the Monroe Doctrine?

  • A policy to provide aid to countries in order to stop them falling to communist agression
  • A declaration from West Germany that it wouldn't have diplomatic relations with any country, other than the USSR, that recognised East Germany
  • A promise from America to maintain the independence of the Americas', away from European control
  • A promise to stop the spread of Communism

9. Who was behind 'Ostpolitik'?

  • Erich Honecker
  • Willy Brandt
  • Kennedy
  • Khrushchev

10. Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima?

  • Atlee
  • Truman
  • Roosevelt
  • Stalin

11. What date was the Potsdam Conference?

  • July-August 1918
  • July-August 1946
  • July-August 1945
  • January-March 1945

12. Complete this quote by the USSR: "We are producing missiles like..."

  • We invented them
  • Sausages
  • There is no tomorrow
  • America

13. When was S.A.L.T I signed?

  • 1972
  • 1970
  • 1979
  • 1975

14. When did Kennedy become the President of America?

  • 1958
  • 1955
  • 1961
  • 1962

15. When was N.A.T.O established?

  • 1950
  • 1948
  • 1949
  • 1955