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Contain Communist Expansion
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Increased Tension
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International Alliances between 29 members states of North America and Europe. Defend each other from Soviet Unions
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North invaded the South in support of the USSR
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response to NATO through collective security
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To show that Warsaw Pact is not unified, but was crashed by the Warsaw Pact Forces
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Khrushchev, a policy of peace between nations, that they can have competition but with no war
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A barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin.
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Due to brinkmanship - achieving something by going through dangerous events - it almost lead to nuclear war between countries that are powerful
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period of political liberalization and mass protest in Czechoslovakia as a Communist State. Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet Foreign Policy to intervene in countries where Socialist rule was under threat.
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North of Vietnam was occupied by the Soviets, while South of Vietnam was occupied by the US. With President Eisenhower he strengthened the policies against the Soviets. Domino Theory was a theory that if one country in a region would go under the influence of communist, the rest will follow.
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An effort to reduce the tension between the Soviets and Western blocs.
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A multilateral treaty that wanted to limit the spreading of nuclear weapons.
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The Soviets intervened in the support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist guerrillas during the Afghan War.
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First Trade Union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by the communist party, lead by Lech Walesa.
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Germany was reunified after the torn down of the Berlin Wall
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A sign that the Soviet is losing control over its former allies, and Cold War is coming to an end.
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The oil and gas dropped dramatically, the USSR began to lose its Eastern Europe alliances. Gorbachev's reforms were slow to bear fruit which also added to collapse the Soviets.
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reduce the number of nuclear weapons as a form of deterrence -discouraging an action by stating fears of consequences.-
