The Cold War Review

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  1. 2. This American president adopted a new foreign policy that rejected both containment and détente. He called the Soviet Union "an evil empire" and believed the United States should defeat evil, not contain or negotiate with it. He believed the only way to deal with the Soviet Union was "peace through strength.”
  2. 4. Limiting the spread of communism through diplomatic, economic, and military actions.
  3. 6. Nixon approach to improving relations with Communist nations, aimed at easing global tensions.
  4. 12. A military alliance formed during the Cold War that focused on the collective defense and the protection of its members from potential threats from the Soviet Union.
  5. 13. President Eisenhower's willingness to threaten nuclear war to maintain peace worried many people. Critics called this ___________ the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down-and critics argued that this strategy was too dangerous.
  6. 16. The presence of the Soviet army in Eastern Europe ensured that pro-Soviet Communist governments would be established in the nations of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The Communist countries of Eastern Europe came to be called ___________
  7. 17. This Soviet leader's reforms played a significant role in ending the Cold War and restructuring the Soviet Union's political and economic systems.
  8. 18. Postwar Western Europe faced grave problems. The war had ruined economies, left people starving, and caused political chaos in many countries. In June 1947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed the European Recovery Program, commonly called the ___________, which pumped billions of dollars in supplies, machinery, and food into Western Europe. With this aid, the region recovered, making it more appealing than the communist region.
  9. 19. The name of the operation conducted by the United States and its allies to supply West Berlin during the Soviet Union’s blockade.
  10. 20. The Korean War convinced Eisenhower that the United States could not contain communism by fighting a series of small wars. Instead, wars had to be prevented. He believed the best way to do that was threatening to use nuclear weapons. This policy came to be called ___________.
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  1. 1. The Declaration of Liberated Europe was issued at the ___________ Conference. It asserted that it is the right of all people to choose their form of government. The Soviet Union refused to follow the rules of this document leading to the Cold War.
  2. 3. This policy was created by Gorbachev and translates to “restructuring.” It aimed to introduce elements of capitalism and reduce the strict communist control over the Soviet economy.
  3. 5. Fidel Castro had overthrown the corrupt Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Castro quickly established ties with the Soviet Union. Kennedy announced that the Soviet Union had placed long- range nuclear missiles in Cuba leading to this ___________, bringing the world the closest to the brink of nuclear war.
  4. 7. This policy was created by Gorbachev and translates to “openness.” It aimed to increase freedom of speech and access to information in the Soviet Union.
  5. 8. To prevent Communists from staging revolutions within vulnerable countries, Eisenhower used covert, or hidden, operations conducted by the ___________.
  6. 9. The ___________, written by George Kennan, circulated widely in Truman's administration and became the basis for the U.S. policy of containment.
  7. 10. A military alliance formed between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that defended communist interests. Formed in response to NATO.
  8. 11. This structure was built by Khrushchev to stop people from leaving communist-controlled East Berlin and became a potent symbol of the ideological divide between communism and capitalism.
  9. 14. After watching the Communist takeover in Eastern Europe, the former British prime minister Winston Churchill referred to an "___________" descending across Europe.
  10. 15. This war started because both American and Soviet forces had entered Korea to disarm the Japanese troops stationed there after World War II. Soviet troops controlled the north, while American troops controlled the south. Soon the northern Communist Korea invaded South Korea.