Nuclear Weapons
This country possessed the greatest number of nuclear weapons in 1965
What is the Soviet Union?
The continent that experienced the greatest number of battle-related deaths throughout the Cold War.
What is Asia?
Large countries with unmatched military or economic power capable of extending their influence globally.
What are superpowers?
The country that was the largest member of NATO, an anti-Soviet defensive alliance.
What is the United States?
This war in Eastern Asia was arguably the first proxy war between the USA and the USSR.
What is the Korean War
This country possessed the greatest number of nuclear weapons by the end of the Cold War.
What is the United States?
The author of source 6 was a leader of this country.
What is China?
A conflict fought between weaker groups on behalf of larger countries.
What is a proxy war?
This powerful country dominated most of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
This war in Southeast Asia was escalated following a report that an American destroyer was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.
What is the Vietnam War?
Use of nuclear weapons by the USA to end this war ultimately launched the Cold War.
What is World War II?
In Source 4, the CIA argues that possession of these will allow the Soviet Union to bully other countries to expand their power.
What are atomic bombs?
The process by which former colonies of Europe achieved independence throughout the Cold War.
What is Decolonization?
This West Asian ally of the United States invaded Egypt to prevent a nationalization of the Suez Canal.
What is Israel?
This American spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union, prompting a diplomatic incident.
What is a U-2?
These powerful bombs, developed in the 1960's, are more than 2000 times more powerful than those dropped on Japan in 1945.
What are thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs?
An event is described in source 8 as taking an "enormous toll" on the USSR, contributing greatly to its collapse.
What is the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
An alliance of democratic countries in Europe and the Americas created to oppose Soviet expansion.
What is NATO?
This country was the site of a major standoff between the USA and USSR due to the stationing of nuclear weapons there.
What is Cuba (or Turkey)?
This monumental event led to the creation of a telephone line by which the leaders of the USA and USSR could communicate directly.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This treaty, signed in 1963, banned the testing of nuclear weapons above ground.
What is the Partial Test Ban Treaty?
At the end of source 1, Jeremi Suri argues that the Cold War should be remembered as a period of this.
What is terror?
An alliance of USSR-backed socialist countries in Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Although officially socialist, this large Asian country swapped between friendly and unfriendly relations with both the USSR and USA throughout the Cold War.
What is China?
The Soviet Union deployed tanks to prevent this country from gaining full independence.
What is Hungary?