US-Soviet Relations 1950-1980
The process that Khrushchev implements when coming into office
What is De-Stalinization?
Leader of communist Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
This Soviet premier is largely responsible for most rapidly escalating the arms race
Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
This long, draining conflict significantly weakened the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
What is the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
This country’s 1989 protests and fall of its wall symbolized the end of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What is East Germany?
The cooling of tensions
What is détente?
Disastrous CIA-sponsored invasion using Cuban exiles
What is the Bay of Pigs?
These agreements attempted to limit nuclear weapons between the superpowers
What are SALT I and II?
The period from 1964-1985 in the Soviet Union that was characterized by economic decline, political paralysis, and a decline in the standard of living
What is the Era of Stagnation? (Gorbachev blamed a centralized economy, technological backwardness, and a rigid gerontocracy, and Brezhnev.)
As part of the Cuban Missile crisis resolution, the US secretly agreed to remove missiles from this NATO ally.
Where is Turkey?
The name for the relaxed period of censorship and repression in the USSR from 1950-1960
What is the Khrushchev thaw?
This backchannel communication tool was established after the crisis to allow rapid contact between the US and USSR.
What is the hotline?
This type of agreement, signed in 1968, aimed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries.
What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?
Gorbachev’s policy of "glasnost" encouraged this within Soviet society.
What is "Glasnost"?
Khrushchev's favorite vegetable
CORN
Popular student uprising in Central Europe that established the Brezhnev Doctrine that justified Soviet intervention in satellite states.
What is the Prague Spring 1968?
This 1963 agreement helped reduce nuclear tensions after the crisis
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
The name of the Reagan program which called for a space-based missile defense system
What is STAR WARS?
This internal economic reform under Gorbachev aimed to restructure the Soviet economy.
What is "Perestroika"?
This 1956 uprising was crushed by Soviet forces, revealing the limits of US influence in Eastern Europe.
What is the Hungarian Uprising?
This phrase, coined during Khrushchev's leadership, referred to a policy of avoiding direct conflict while maintaining competition with the West.
What is peaceful coexistence?
This top-secret U.S. group, formed during the crisis, advised President Kennedy on how to respond to the Soviet missiles in Cuba.
What is EXCOMM? (Executive Committee of the National Security Council)
This agreement, signed in 1991, sought to reduce strategic offensive arms and marked the end of the Cold War arms race
What is the START I treaty?
This political leader freed a kidnapped Gorbachev in order to ultimately force him to dissolve the Soviet Union
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
This was the name of the devastating Allied Invasion of China from across the Himalayas and the Straits of Taiwan that led in nuclear strikes across the globe.
What is Operation Red Downfall?