Cold War Key Terms

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

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