Cold War Review

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  1. 3. Competition between nations to achieve superior spaceflight capability; especially the US & USSR race to the moon during the Cold War
  2. 5. Defensive alliance formed in 1955 between the Soviet Union and other Soviet communist “satellite” states; created in response to NATO
  3. 7. Underground structures, stocked with food and other supplies, that were intended to keep people safe from radioactive fallout (particles) following a nuclear attack
  4. 10. (1972 & 1979) “Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaties” Negotiations between the US & USSR to limit the number of newly created nuclear weapons
  5. 12. Purposely escalating a dangerous situation to the limit (brink), while giving the impression that you are willing to go to war, in the hope of pressuring your opponents to back down
  6. 13. Policy that the US would support democracy in any country threatened by Soviet forces or communist uprisings; introduced by US President Harry Truman in 1947
  7. 14. (Russian) “Restructuring” Policy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 to decentralize the Soviet economy and allow more economic freedoms for the people
  8. 15. (French) “Loosening, relaxation” The relaxing of tensions between the superpowers
Down
  1. 1. Practice of using unfair accusations/investigations towards others with little or no evidence; named for Senator Joseph McCarthy’s suspicion and hunt for communist activity in 1950s America
  2. 2. “North Atlantic Treaty Organization” Defensive alliance formed in 1949 between the US & Western Europe in response to the growing threat from the Soviet Union
  3. 4. Physical barrier built by the Soviets around democratic West Berlin to separate it from communist East Berlin/East Germany
  4. 6. Competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons; especially the US & USSR during the Cold War
  5. 8. US foreign policy during the Cold War in which the US tried to contain communism by preventing it from spreading to other countries
  6. 9. (Russian) “Openness” Policy promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s to discourage the typical government secrecy in the Soviet Union and to encourage open discussion and distribution of information
  7. 11. Imaginary barrier separating Eastern & Western Europe; term created by Winston Churchill to describe the division between democracies and Soviet-influenced communist states in Europe