Cold War Key Terms

2. father of communism
3. US foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
4. 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
7. first communist leader of China, founder of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward
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
10. treaty aimed at limiting nuclear arms
11. attempt in the 1980s to improve the Soviet economy (which failed)
12. term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
15. a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
16. alliance between USSR and Eastern European countries

1. Soviet attempt to starve out the allied powers in Berlin, Germany after World War 2
4. the modernization and industrialization of Japan in the late 1800's
5. Independent, Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control
6. Chinese leader whose economic reforms introduced capitalist elements to China's communism
13. Soviet leader who unsuccessfully attempted to reform the economy
14. alliance of democratic western countries