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The Korean War ended in a _______ in 1953.

armistice

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This individual was elected US president in 1952.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?

100

This was signed in August 1970 between the Soviet Union, Poland and West Germany.

What is the Moscow Treaty? 

100

This is the first treaty between the USSR and China.

What is the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Alliance?

100

This policy encouraged the opening of channels between East and West Germany.

What is Ostpolitik?

200

Leader of North Korea

Kim Il Sung

200

Khrushchev and Kennedy met together in this city for a summit in June 1961.

What is Vienna?

200

Reason for the complete collapse of détente.

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. 

200

This policy aimed to rapidly develop China's agricultural and industrial sectors simultaneously by harnessing the energy of the vast population of China, and by doing so dispose of the need for Soviet aid.

What was the Great Leap Forward? 

200

This was the leader of Yugoslavia when the country was expelled from Cominform. 

Who is Tito?

300

This was formed as an anti-Communist containment bloc in the Asia region.

What is SEATO?

300

This policy referred to preventing the extension of Soviet Communism outside of the areas where it was already established.

What is 'New Look'?

300

U.S. Presidents during the period of détente

Nixon, Ford, Carter

300

This was launched in May 1966.

What was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?

300
East German leader in the 1950s

Who was Walter Ulbricht?

400

This nationalist and communist movement was very active against the Japanese. 

What was the Vietminh? 

400

This individual formulated the idea of a 'New Course' with the West.

Who is Georgy Malenkov?

400

This term refers to a more realistic foreign policy.

What is realpolitik?

400

Three Southeast Asian countries that border China.

What are Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma) and Laos?

400

This person aimed to create 'socialism with a human face'?

Who was Alexander Dubcek?
500

This country bombarded Quemoy and Matsu in 1958.

What is the PRC?

500

"If the Middle East is to continue its geographic role of uniting rather than separating east and West, if its vast economic resources are to serve the well-being of the peoples there, as well as that of others.... then the United States must make more evident its willingness to support the independence of the freedom-loving nations of the area...." 

What is the Eisenhower Doctrine? 

500

The three areas covered in SALT I. 

What are: (1) the Anti-Ballistic Missiles); (2) Interim Treaty; (3) Basic Principles Agreement. 

500

The four key areas that were the focus for Sino-American relations in the 1970s.

What are Taiwan, Vietnam, the United Nations and the USSR?

500

The conference in 1955, held in response to the USA's involvement in setting up SEATO, where 29 Asian and African states asserted their neutrality.

What was the Bandung Conference?