WorksheetsEnd of Cold War
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.
Deterrence
using tactics of fear and intimidation as strategies to make the opposing side back down - getting right to edge of war
a failed 1961 attempt by the United States to overthrow Fidel Castro's government in Cuba
A doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.
Truman Doctrine
Mutually Assured Destruction
Containment
Perestroika
the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972. Aimed to limit the number of nuclear weapons each nation could possess.
STAR WARS treaty
the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.
the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system in Soviet Union
Glasnost
Economic Isolation
Liberalism
Perestroika
What wars were fought during the Cold War as a result of containment and the Domino Theory?
Korean & Vietnam War
WWI & WWII
Civil War & Spanish American War
Persian Gulf & War on Terror
What is the map associated with?
The US and British response to the Berlin Wall
The US and British response to the Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union building the Iron Curtain
The division on Berlin
