Unresolved Global Conflict Vocab Review

Belief that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would also fall.

• Iron Curtain

• Domino Theory

• Superpower

• Truman Doctrine

The leader of the Soviet Union following Stalin ruling from 1953-1964. He favored a peaceful co-existence with the West

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Lech Walesa

• Ho Chi Minh

• Truman

The Soviet leader who was arrested and imprisoned dissidents and claimed the right to interfere with the Warsaw pact

• Krushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Gorbachev

• Glasnost

The military alliance between the Soviet union and its Eastern European satellites.

• Detente

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

• Warsaw Pact

Leaders of Solidarity that helped Poland gain Independence from the Soviet Union, later became President of Poland in 1990.

• Khrushchev

• Lech Walesa

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

Policy of openness instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s

• Warsaw Pact

• Satellites

• Glasnost

• Detente

A massive concrete barrier, dividing democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. The wall acted as a symbol of the Cold War and Soviet union (USSR) restriction .

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Wall

• Solidarity

• Glasnost

The Cold War policy of limiting the spread of communism.

• Domino Theory

• Marshall Plan

• Cold War

• Containment

The last communist leader of the Soviet Union. He is known for his work to end Cold War tensions, and changing the Soviet government and economy.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Ho Chi Minh

• Leach Walesa

• Khrushchev

The easing of tensions between the US and the Soviet Union in the 1970s

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

• satellite