Spies
Lasting from 1950-1990, the ________ was the primary intelligence service and secret police organization of the GDR. Its longest serving leader was Erich Melke, who led from 1957-1989.
Stasi
The Eisenhower Doctrine was highlighted on January 5, 1957 with the "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in ______________"
the Middle East
The Ban the Bomb Movement began in 1957 when a committee was formed in _________.
The United Kingdom
The Kitchen Debate took place in 1959 at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. Nikita Krushchev represented the USSR and President __________ represented the US.
John F. Kennedy
Ping pong diplomacy is most associated with which decade?
70s
Working as a CIA analyst from 1962 before his arrest in 1994, __________ compromised more CIA assets than any other double agent until he was surpassed by Robert Hanssen in 2001.
Aldrich Ames
Following the removal of Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, two rebel groups attempted to capture power: the Sandinistas, backed by the Soviets, and the _________, backed by the US.
Contras
Operation RYAN was initiated in 1981 by the then KGB chairman __________.
Yuri Andropov
At the Geneva Summit of 1955, President __________ first announced the "Open Skies" Proposal. The plan was never accepted. However, it set the stage for Reagan's policy of "trust, but verify."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
CENTO was organized in 1955 in Baghdad before being moved to Ankara in _______.
1958
George Blake was a double agent who passed information to the USSR while working for _____, also klnown as the British Secret Intelligence Service.
M16
Coined by Ludwig von Rochau in 1853, the term _________ was most prominently espoused by Henry Kissinger, US SOS from 1973-1977. This culminated in US involvement in Cambodia, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, East Timor, and Bangladesh.
Realpolitik
- Ballistic missile holding several warheads that can be aimed at different targets
- Minuteman III was the first one tested(1968)
- Possessed by all nuclear-armed states except Pakistan and North Korea
MIRVs
Three weeks following the KAL 007 incident, the Oko nuclear early-warning system detected four missiles supposedly launched by the US. As duty officer at Oko, ___________ averted nuclear warfare by deeming the situation a false alarm.
Stanislav Petrov
What year did Operation Rolling Thunder begin and end?
1965-1968
Lasting from 1943-1980, the _________ Project discovered the Cambridge Spy Ring and Project Enormous. It was organized by the US National Security Agency.
Venona
In April 28, 1970, American troops invaded Cambodia to cut off supplies moving along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The incursion came a month after a coup overthrew Pince Norodom Sihanouk and replaced him with _________ who led the Khmer Republic from 1970 to its collapse in 1975.
Lon Nol
_________ oversaw the project that desgned and built Tsar Bomba.
Andrei Sakharov
Published in 1980, Land of the Firebird was written by _________. The book begins in 987 with the Christianization of Kievan Rus and ends in 1917 with the October Revolution.
Suzanne Massie
In ________, Czechoslovak President Edvard Benes was overthrown and replaced by the communist Klement Gottwald.
1948
Who are the five members of the Cambridge Spy Ring?
Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross
The War Powers Act(1973) was introduced into the House by Clement Zablocki, a Democrat representing __________'s 4th district.
Wisconsin
In September 1983, Stanislav Petrov detected a nuclear false alarm at the Oko missile early defence warning system, just three weeks after _____________.
KAL 007
Negotiations for SALT II began right after the successful passage of SALT I in 1972. President Jimmy Carter signed SALT II in 1979. However, it failed Senate ratification because of ___________.
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
In which years did the Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War, and the Yom Kippur War take place?
1956, 1967, 1973