Key terms:
- Policy of containment – 1947
- Truman Doctrine1947- Asked congress for 400 million dollars Money and communist so we don't go into depression again
- Marshall Plan (shortly after Truman Doctrine)- George C. Marshall-he was the boss Rebuild Europe communism doesn't want it to go there. we gave billions of dollars to Europe so communism to keep it out of there
- Brinkmanship 50's and 60'sBrink - just were war would just about to go into war. Not go into war and hope they would back down.weakness - what if they don't back down then a nuclear war breaks out
- Massive Retaliation/Mutual deterrence/mutual Assured Destruction- we had a response attack on Japan Nuclear weapons helped make the world safer Soviet Union and United States Fear of everyone dying so no one goes to war
- NATO vs. Warsaw- North Atlantic Treaty Organization our alliance to the Cold war US. Canada, Europe Western Help take down things in Europe These are the 2 alliances
- CIA vs KGB- CIA is still around while KGB is non-intelligence gathering agency to try and protect the united state we were concerned about the Soviet Union we helped kill leaders in the 50's and 60's this was not a good thing for out reputation so it changed
- Peaceful Coexistence- a of socialist and capitalist Next major leader Nekida Crusshevd thought maybe the cold war was coming to an end
- De-stalinization- Getting Stalin to die
- Detente 1970- French release of tension US and Soviet Union Policy that would release the tension
- Nuclear Test ban Treaty 1963- became close to go into Nuclear war Banned Nuclear Testing above ground Test them to make them bigger and stronger
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (treaty) 1972- Soviet Union and US get to talk about limitations about Nuclear weapons SALT
- Anti-ballistic missile treaty- prevented US and USSR from making any type of technology that would be able to detect missile use
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