Chapter 7 Flashcards
 Brinkmanship✅
foreign policy practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other
Cuban missile crisis
Proxy wars✅
Wars in which the main parties don’t get involved and use smaller powers to fight for it
Korean War
Veietman war
 containment✅
Containing an opposing ideology from spreading
Detente✅
a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971
Truman doctrine✅
established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
 containment
Deterrence✅
 Peace through strength
military strategy under which one power uses the threat of reprisal effectively to preclude an attack from an adversary power
Building up one’s capacity to fight such that either opponent will fight because of the expected outcomes
Highway example
Marshall plan✅
U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II
MAD✅
Mutual assured destruction
Total annihilation of both parties due to nuclear weapons
McCarthyism✅
a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations into alleged communist supports
 espionage✅
the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military
 Iron Curtain✅
Division between American and Soviet ideologies in Europe
 Stalinization✅
Created satellite states as a buffer zone for the Soviet Union
Alexander Dubcek✅
Introduced guaranteed rights and freedoms to Russia as well as loosening restrictions on press media travel and limited the power of the secret police
 alignment✅
Choosing a side in the Cold War and aligning with the superpowers beliefs and ideology
What 2 Leaders de-escalated the Cold War✅
Ronald Reagan and Mikal Gorbachev
