Chapter 15

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Question 1

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

a) Cruise and Trident missiles

b) Cruise missiles and the neutron bomb

c) Pershing missiles and SS-20s

d) Cruise and Pershing missiles

Question 2

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

a) 8 September 1978

b) 16 January 1979

c) 4 November 1979

d) 27 July 1980

Question 3

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

a) Idi Amin

b) Nur Mohammed Taraki

c) Hafizullah Amin

d) Babrak Karmal

Question 4

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'

a) The Caribbean

b) The Middle East

c) Southeast Asia

d) The Persian Gulf

Question 5

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

a) Targeting Soviet command centres and weapons sites in a nuclear war

b) Preparing the US economy for a nuclear war

c) Protecting the President and other key decision makers during a nuclear war

d) Measures to bring about the early liberation of Afghanistan from Soviet occupation