Nixon in Beijing

American Dynamics

100

This American politician ran their campaign on pledges of restoring American greatness and disengaging from 'unnecessary' wars

Richard Nixon

200

This former Harvard professor served as Nixon's National Security Advisor

Henry Kissinger

300

In 1974, as a result of Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal, he resigned. Who took his place?

Gerald Ford

400

Nixon pursued this specific policy with regard to China and Russia

Detente

500

In 1971, the U.S. government drastically changed the international economic system by doing what

Suspending the fixed exchange rate of dollars to gold 

Chinese Policy

100

What was the Chinese fear which opened up the possibility of negotiation?

Soviet aggression

200

Who was the Chinese Premier who handled the Detente process?

Zhou Enlai

300

This recent event in Chinese history had reduced China's preparedness to fend off foreign invasion

The Cultural Revolution

400

This coastal territory, in China, had become a listening post for western powers against the Chinese government

Hong Kong

500

Who was Mao's successor who died in an escape attempt while in his plane to the Soviet Union?

Lin Biao

Russia's Role

100

This individual, with abnormally thicc eyebrows, was the Soviet premier during Detente

Leonid Brezhnev

200

Who was the Nobel Laureate, and famous author critical of the Soviet Union who wrote works like Gulag Archipelago 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

300

Relative to the United States, Brezhnev said the Soviet Union would not accept what?

Subservience

400

This issue of negotiation regarding the U.S. became the USSRs main focus in the early 70s

Strategic Arms Limitations

500

In what year did the USSR put the first satellite into orbit

1957

International Relations

100

This was the name of the first arms limitation treaty signed between the USSR and US

SALT

200

As part of the U.S. China negotiations, both parties agreed on a "One China" Policy -- which precluded the United States from recognizing what political entity?

Taiwan

300

What was the final name of the joint statement released by the U.S. and China at the end of their negotiations?

The Shanghai Communique

400

Nixon became the first ever president to visit China in what year?

1972

500

As part of a secret trip to China, Henry Kissinger stopped at this country first.

Pakistan

Smelly Cinnamon Candles

100

What were the respective names of the American and Soviet spacecraft which were used in the two countries' first joint space operation

Apollo and Soiuz

200

This was the name given to the burgeoning economies of east Asia

Little Tigers

300

This country in Asia received almost as much U.S. aid as the entire continent of Africa

South Korea

400

***DAILY DOUBLE***

This was the name of the international economic order established following WWII, named after the New Hampshire ski resort where the agreement was born

Bretton Woods System

500

A former labor movement leader, who was the first Prime Minister of Singapore?

Lee Kuan Yew