CNN Cold War documentary part 16:
Detente
During and/or after the video, you should be able to answer the following questions.
You may or not be tested on the following questions upon my return to ensure that you are paying attention...
1. What do we mean by detente?
1a. What was the alternative?
2. Who became US President in 1969?
2a. What was he prepared to accept?
3. What was Nixon’s first priority as US President?
3a. What had the war cost the US by this point?
4. What was their strategy for exiting Vietnam?
4a. What did they do to support his aim?
5. What was the reaction of some Americans to bringing the war into Cambodia?
6. What did Brezhnev, the new Soviet leader, want from the US to encourage detente?
7. What was Ostpolitik?
7a. What was an example of this policy and who was the main person pushing it forward?
8. What did detente mean for the people of Berlin?
9. Who was directing the US response to the Cold War at this point?
10. Why did the US want to build relationships with Communist China?
10a. How did the USSR react to this?
11. Why did the Vietnam war make relations with the USSR more difficult for the US?
12. What did Nixon achieve in 1972?
13. What was surprising about the Moscow accords?
13a. What did it focus on?
1. What do we mean by detente?
1a. What was the alternative?
2. Who became US President in 1969?
2a. What was he prepared to accept?
3. What was Nixon’s first priority as US President?
3a. What had the war cost the US by this point?
4. What was their strategy for exiting Vietnam?
4a. What did they do to support his aim?
5. What was the reaction of some Americans to bringing the war into Cambodia?
6. What did Brezhnev, the new Soviet leader, want from the US to encourage detente?
7. What was Ostpolitik?
7a. What was an example of this policy and who was the main person pushing it forward?
8. What did detente mean for the people of Berlin?
9. Who was directing the US response to the Cold War at this point?
10. Why did the US want to build relationships with Communist China?
10a. How did the USSR react to this?
11. Why did the Vietnam war make relations with the USSR more difficult for the US?
12. What did Nixon achieve in 1972?
13. What was surprising about the Moscow accords?
13a. What did it focus on?
