The Cold War Sec 1 Flashcards
A relaxation of tensions
Détente
A strategy of keeping communism within existing boundaries
Containment
Launched Star Wars defense system
Ronald Reagan
A system of beliefs and values
Ideology
Soviet leader after Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
In the period after World War II which two sides faced off
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
SALT START and NPT were
Agreements to limit nuclear weapons
The cold or got hot and flared up into actual fighting in
Korea
During the Cuban missile crisis the United States and the Soviet Union were led by
Kennedy and Khrushchev
Capitalist countries have market economies and communist countries have
Command economies
What kind of race was the US and the USSR competing in after World War II
An arms race
What was the name of the cartoon character that taught American children how to duck and cover
Bert the turtle
What idea was referred to as the balance of terror
Neither superpower wanted to back down there was a race back-and-forth to match the others weapons power
What treaty was signed by many nations in 1968 to prevent spread or growth of nuclear weapons
The nuclear nonproliferation Treaty
What four countries resisted Soviet control
East Berlin Other known as east Germany
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
