3. Where did the meeting between President Ford and Soviet Premier Brezhnev take place?
(a) Ekaterinberg.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Vladivostok.
(d) Moscow.

4. What year did the last conversations between Mao and Kissinger take place?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1975.

5. The Horizontal Line included all but which of the following?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Iran.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Kissinger at this time?

2. In 1967 Nixon published an article in which publication?

3. What was the title of Qiao Guanhua?

4. Zhou's critics had argued that he was too ____.

5. China hoped to surpass ____ in steel production.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is considered to be one of the greatest diplomats of the 19th century? What theory does Kissinger refer to when speaking about the man?

2. Mao presented a new sense of warmth toward the United States Where was this most noticeable? How did Mao now present the relationship between China and the United States?

3. What did Kissinger say about his first meeting with Mao?

4. How did Mao combat his weakened position in the triumvirate?

5. Mao was referred to as both a revolutionary and a pragmatist. How did Mao typically behave in a political sense?

6. What does Kissinger say about foreign policy and the actions of the statesmen? How did Mao fit into this mold?

7. Why did Bismarck fail to capture the attention of the United States and China?

8. What caused the Chinese to confront Communism?

9. What does Kissinger say about the ideology of China and Russia at this time?

10. What changed in Russia in the mid-1950s? What caused the change?

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