Cold War Key Terms
Across
- 2. father of communism
- 7. attempt in the 1980s to improve the Soviet economy (which failed)
- 8. policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was pursued by the US and USSR in the 1970s
- 9. Soviet policy that rejected Stalin's repressions and called for openness and more freedom
- 11. US foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
- 13. alliance between USSR and Eastern European countries
- 14. the modernization and industrialization of Japan in the late 1800's
- 15. first communist leader of China, founder of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward
- 16. Soviet attempt to starve out the allied powers in Berlin, Germany after World War 2
Down
- 1. Independent, Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control
- 3. treaty aimed at limiting nuclear arms
- 4. term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
- 5. idea that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be destroyed
- 6. alliance of democratic western countries
- 7. a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
- 10. Soviet leader who unsuccessfully attempted to reform the economy
- 12. Chinese leader whose economic reforms introduced capitalist elements to China's communism