Brinkmanship- policies used throughout the 50’s and 60’s going to the brink of war, and then has the other side back down.
Massive retaliation- when the Soviet Union made nuclear weapons the world became safer.
NATO vs. Warsaw pact- 2 alliance
CIA vs KGB- spying, getting information. Very important organization. The two groups would go back and forth.
peaceful coexistence- socialists and capitalists getting along.
Desalinization- elimination of influence of Stalin.
nuclear test band treaty of 1963- result of Cuban missile crisis. closest we came to war with SU. Said that atomic bombs had to be tested underground.
SALT- treaty 1972 SU and US talked about limiting nuclear weapons.
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