Definitions
A nation that is under the control or influence of another nation.
What is a satellite state?
This grew between 1978-1980.
What is tensions in Afghanistan?
A countrywide revolution against Stalinism in which thousands were killed or wounded while attempting to leave the country.
What is the Hungarian Uprising?
The First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953-1964.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
A supranational alliance of Marxist-Leninist communist parties in Europe that coordinated their activity following the Soviet Union.
What is Cominform?
The year the Soviets left Afghanistan.
The period of time when the government of Czechoslovakia wanted to democratize the nation and lessen the strong hold Moscow had on their affairs.
What is the Prague Spring?
The president of Poland from 1990-1995.
Who was Lech Walesa?
A pledge of US intervention in the Persian Gulf if the Soviets threatened its interest there.
What is the Carter Doctrine?
The reason the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
What is fear of Afghan revolution?
A foreign policy which called on the Soviet Union to intervene in countries where socialist rule was under threat.
What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
US president from 1977-1981.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The Arabic word meaning holy war; The Afghan guerrilla groups declared this against the supporters of Amin.
What is jihad?
The U.S. perception of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
What is evidence of Soviet Expansion?
An invasion that threatened the reputation of communism and the soviet union globally.
What is the Czech Invasion?
The final President of the Soviet Union.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
The name for the Afghan guerrilla groups who engaged in the above holy war.
What is Mujahedin?
True or false: The post revisionist view DOES NOT see the Soviets as responding defensivly to what they beleived to be a genuine security threat.
What is false?
This country was cut off of economic aid in 1948 during the split between itself and the USSR.
What is Yugoslavia?
Co-founder of Afghanistan, assassinated by USSR after 3 months in office.
Who was Hafizullah Amin?