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- 2. The period of the easing Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the USSR (1967-1979)
- 3. the imaginary line dividing Europe between Soviet influence and Western influence, and symbolizes efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas.
- 6. a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
- 8. A military alliance between many Western European and North American nations in order to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means.
- 10. a collective defense treaty signed between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955.
- 12. strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States beginning in the late 1940s in order to check the expansionist policy of the Soviet Union.
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- 1. This Strategic Defense Initiative was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons
- 4. The principle established by President Harry S. Truman that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
- 5. A U.S. sponsored initiative in which America would provide aid to European Nations destroyed in WWII in order to stop the spread of Communism.
- 7. The U.S. idea that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow
- 9. an organization of States that did not seek to formally align themselves with either the United States or the Soviet Union, but sought to remain independent or neutral.
- 11. the act of pushing a situation to the verge of war, in order to threaten and encourage one's opponent to back down.