Which of the Following Correctly Accounts for the Fate of the SALT

question 40

Multiple Choice

Which of the following correctly accounts for the fate of the SALT II agreement?

• A) It was approved by the Senate after President Carter personally traveled to Vienna to demonstrate United States support for arms control.
• B) Support for the treaty dissolved after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
• C) Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev refused to sign it as a protest against a series of anti-Soviet measures that President Carter adopted.
• D) It was passed by the Senate and signed by President Carter, but President Reagan repealed it because it gave too much to the Evil Empire.
• E) It became the cornerstone for future U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations.

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