Chapter 15 Self-test questions

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. Which two weapons systems did the December 1979 NATO Council meeting agree should be deployed in Europe by 1983?

Cruise and Trident missiles correct incorrect

Cruise missiles and the neutron bomb correct incorrect

Pershing missiles and SS-20s correct incorrect

Cruise and Pershing missiles correct incorrect

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. On what date did the Shah of Iran go into exile, paving the way for the Ayatollah Khomeini to set up a new regime?

8 September 1978 correct incorrect

16 January 1979 correct incorrect

4 November 1979 correct incorrect

27 July 1980 correct incorrect

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. Which Afghan leader was killed in the immediate aftermath of the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

Idi Amin correct incorrect

Nur Mohammed Taraki correct incorrect

Hafizullah Amin correct incorrect

Babrak Karmal correct incorrect

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. An attempt to gain control of which region was declared to be 'an assault on the vital interests of the United States' under the 1980 'Carter Doctrine'

The Caribbean correct incorrect

The Middle East correct incorrect

Southeast Asia correct incorrect

The Persian Gulf correct incorrect

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. What was the main concern of US Presidential Directive (PD) 59?

Targeting Soviet command centres and weapons sites in a nuclear war correct incorrect

Preparing the US economy for a nuclear war correct incorrect

Protecting the President and other key decision makers during a nuclear war correct incorrect

Measures to bring about the early liberation of Afghanistan from Soviet occupation correct incorrect