Unit 8 Vocab

Question 1

Brinkmanship

Answer 1

The act of pursing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before backing down (associated with the Cold War arms race)

Question 2

Detente

Answer 2

The easing of hostility or strained relations between countries; a lessening of tension

Question 3

Non-aligned nations

Answer 3

The independent countries that remained neutral; in the Cold War competition; also known as third world nations

Question 4

Proxy war

Answer 4

Conflict between two nations where neither country directly engages the other; during the Cold War, the United States and the USSR would participate in proxy wars

Question 5

Glasnot

Answer 5

A Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information

Question 6

Perestroika

Answer 6

The program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986

Question 7

Partition

Answer 7

A division of a territory into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into the two nations of India and Pakistan

Question 8

Proliferation

Answer 8

A growth or spread; especially the spread of nuclear weapons to nations that do not currently have them