Cold War Key Terms

3. policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was pursued by the US and USSR in the 1970s
4. US foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
5. Chinese leader whose economic reforms introduced capitalist elements to China's communism
11. alliance between USSR and Eastern European countries
12. term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
13. father of communism
14. Soviet policy that rejected Stalin's repressions and called for openness and more freedom
16. Soviet attempt to starve out the allied powers in Berlin, Germany after World War 2
17. alliance of democratic western countries

1. the modernization and industrialization of Japan in the late 1800's
2. attempt in the 1980s to improve the Soviet economy (which failed)
6. Soviet leader who unsuccessfully attempted to reform the economy
7. Independent, Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control
8. a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
9. first communist leader of China, founder of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward
10. 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
15. treaty aimed at limiting nuclear arms