A fight between two superpowers, that doesn't involve any real fighting
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What was the Detente?
The name given to the period of time that meant Russia and the USA could try to improve their relations
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What was SALT 1?
SALT 1 was an agreement that was intended to restrain the arms race. Both Russia and America agreed to it
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What was the Helsinki agreement?
Meetings that took place in Helsinki, which had 33 countries attending it and had an agreement reached n 1975. These agreement were spread out in 3 different 'Baksets'.
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What was Basket 1?
That you could not remove a Europeans borders by force
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What was Basket 2?
This promoted links and exchanges across the iron curtain in the area of trade technology
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What was Basket 3
This was the respect of human rights and freedom, such as freedom of speech
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Why was the Bay of Pigs a complete disaster?
Because the Cuban Exiles were not trained, some guns didn't have any ammo, most of the exiles started shooting each other, and the support they were told they would receive never showed up
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Who did Fidel Castro overthrow?
General Batista, who was described as an American puppet
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What did Fidel Castro do to make America look bad?
He blamed America for all of Cuba's poverty
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What does SDI stand for?
Star Wars Defence Program
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Why was the SDI mad?
SDI was formed to protect the US from ballistic nuclear weapon, like missiles
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
The Truman Doctrine was made to contain the spread of communism
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What was the Marshall Plan?
When an American General George Marshall came back from Europe he thought that the whole of Europe was about to fall to Communism, so asked congress to for $17 billion to fund the European Recovery Program
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Was Stalin offered the Marshall aid?
Although he was offered it, Stalin turned it down, because one of the requirements for the aid was that you could not be communist.
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What did Stalin say to the Communist countries that were offered aid?
Stalin forbade Communist countries to apply for Marshall aid
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