Exam 5: The Origins and End of the Cold War

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. In 1956 and 1968, the Soviet Union deployed forces in which two Warsaw Pact states?

The ______ perspective emphasizes the information revolution as a key event leading to the end of the Cold War.

The Truman Doctrine cast the Cold War in terms of a struggle between two alternative ideologies (or ways of life).

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following was an outcome of the European Economic Community?

Which of the following states was not a permanent member of the UN Security Council when the United Nations was founded?

The strategy of ______ relies on many nuclear weapons to deter both conventional and limited nuclear attacks.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following was a result of the National Security Council document NSC-68, drafted by the U.S. White House in 1950?

Arguing that a change in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas prompted the end of the Cold War is an example of an argument from the ______ level of analysis?

______ is the use of threat to stop an attack before it occurs.

In what year did the European Communities become the European Union?

The argument that the United States provoked the Cold War is called a ______ interpretation because it reverses a traditional argument (in this case, that the Soviet Union provoked the Cold War).

The ______, led by India, Yugoslavia, and Egypt, was a coalition that stressed neutrality in the Cold War.

What does escalation dominance accomplish?

Which term refers to conflicts in peripheral areas in which nuclear powers tested each other's military capabilities and resolve?

In the 1980s, what developments allowed the United States to recover after it seemed that American power was declining?

The Soviet Union supported ______ in recently decolonized developing countries, a type of proxy war against Western colonialism.

Arguing that the Soviet Union will use international organizations and transnational actors (like the Russian Orthodox Church, pan-Slav movements, and labor movements) to further its strategic interests is an example of an argument from the ______ perspectives.

The ______, proposed by the United States in 1946, sought to create a UN agency to control and manage nuclear weapons cooperatively.

After decolonization, how did the Soviet Union and the United States become involved in newly independent states?

The ______ level of analysis describes the argument that the Soviet Union behaved aggressively at the start of the Cold War because Soviet society was aggressive.