Author Question: The 1972 arms agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to slow the arms ... (Read 51 times)

haleyc112 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

One of the ways in which President Nixon and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger tried to weaken communism was by

a. making a big show of expanding the American arsenal of nuclear weapons.
b. increasing America's military presence in Turkey and Iran.
c. halting exports of American wheat to Russia and China.
d. improving relations with both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China at a time when tensionswere increasing between those two communist nations.

Question 2

The 1972 arms agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to slow the arms race by limiting

a. nuclear submarines.
b. antiballistic missile defenses.
c. the number of nuclear warheads on a missile.
d. tactical nuclear weapons.