History A1 International Relations.

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What is the Apollo-Soyuz mission 1975?
A Joint Space Mission In Which An American Apollo Space Craft And A Russian Soyuz Went Into Space.
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What is the Arms Race?
A Race Between The USA & USSR To Build Weapons .
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What is the Atom Bomb?
A Highly Destructive Nuclear Weapon.
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What is A B52 Bommers?
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.
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What is the Bay Of Pigs?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba by America.
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What is the Berlin Wall?
A Wall In Berlin Separating East from West.
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What is the Bizonia?
The Name Used Th Describe The British And US Zones Of Germany.
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What is Capitalism?
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. Eg. America
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What is the Carter Doctrine?
The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the U.S. would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests.
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What is the Chernobyl Crisis?
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union.
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What is the CIA?
Central Intelligence Agency.
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What is the Cold War?
A Phrase Used To Describe The Period Of Extreme Tension Between Super Powers In 1946. Involved No Actual Fighting But Propaganda And Spying.
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What is the Cominform?
An International Organisation Representing Communist Parties Across Europe And Under The Control Of The USSR.
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What is the Comecon?
The Council For Mutual Economic Assistance, Stalin's Answer To The Marshall Plan.
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What is Communism?
A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
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What is Containment?
The American Policy Of Preventing The Spread Of Communism By Containing It.
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What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Major confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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What is the De-stalinisation?
social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor.
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What is Detente?
the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations).
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What is the Deutschmark?
The basic monetary unit of Germany (until the introduction of the euro).
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What is the Eastern Bloc?
The countries of eastern and central Europe that were under Soviet domination from the end of World War.
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What is the Eurocommuism?
The communism of certain western European Communist parties that advocated democratic political procedures and independence from the Soviet government.
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What is the Evil Empire?
The phrase evil empire was applied especially to the Soviet Union and its "empire" by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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What is the FDR?
Federal Republic Of Germany... Capitalist-West Germany.
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What Is The Grand Alliance?
A Military Pact Between The USA The USSR and GB In Order To Defeat Nazi Germany During WW2.
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What Is Hiroshima?
A Place In Japan Which Was Bombed by America In August 1945.
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What is the GDR?
German Democratic Republic... Communist- East Germany.
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What is Glasnost?
(in the former Soviet Union) The policy or practice of more open government and wider dissemination of information.
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What Is The Hotline?
A Phone Link Between The White House And Moscow In 1963.
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What is the Helsinki Agreement?
The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Final Act.
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What Was The Hungarian Uprising?
The Hungarian Revolution or Uprising of 1956  was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies
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What Is ICBM's?
Intercontinental ballistic missile
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What is the INF Treaty 1987?
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) is a 1987. agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union
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What Is The Iron Curtain?
A Metaphor Used By Churchill To Describe The Division Between Western And Eastern Europe.
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What is KGB?
The state security police (1954–91) of the former USSR.
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What Is The Long Telegram?
A Telegram Received By Truman About A Secret Report From Kennan.
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What Is The Marshall Plan?
A Plan Giving 13 billion dollars of american money to rebuild the economics of European counties
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What Was The Mujaheddin?
The Muslim Group Fighting Against The USSR... Funded by the CIA.
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What Is NATO?
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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What Is The Novikov's Telegram?
A Telegram Received By Stalin From Soviet Ambassador
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What Was The Olympic Boycotts Of 1980?
In 1980 the Olympics were in Moscow, and American Refused To Go.
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What Was The Olympic Boycotts Of 1984?
In 1980 the Olympics were in los angeles, and the USSR Refused To Go.
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What Was The Outer Space Treaty of 1967?
The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a treaty that forms the basis of international space law.
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What Is The Potsdam Conference?
1945 between Truman, Atlee, And Stalin.
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What Are Satellite states?
Countries that are officially independent but are in reality controlled by another country.
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