Exam 5: The Origins and End of the Cold War

Minimum deterrence is a strategy that relies on a few nuclear weapons to retaliate and inflict unacceptable damage on the adversary.

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

The ______ level of analysis describes the argument that through interaction, the United States and the Soviet Union came to see each other as enemies, not rivals.

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

The Warsaw Pact included the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, and Yugoslavia, among other Eastern European countries.

Which of the following describes the concept of extended deterrence?

Which American statesman labeled Eastern European countries "captive nations" of the Soviet Union and advocated for a policy of rollback?

What was the aim of the Marshall Plan?

The difference between the policies of Sovietization and Finlandization was whether a state could keep its domestic system while aligning with Moscow on foreign policy.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What developments led some analysts to conclude that America was in decline in the 1970s and 1980s?

Arguing that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to make the United Nations compatible with the constitutional structure of the United States is an example of an argument from the ______ level of analysis.

The Korean War is an example of a proxy war.

After World War II, the process of ______ created more than 50 new states in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The identity perspective highlights which of the following as reasons for the end of the Cold War?

Some realists argue that the distribution at the beginning of the Cold War was tripolar, which is uniquely unstable.

Glasnost and perestroika refer to Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas of domestic reform known as ______.

While deterrence under mutual assured destruction depended on offensive measures, U.S. President Ronald Reagan's policies and plans, such as the Strategic Defense Initiative, suggested that defensive systems might be built up and offensive weapons built down.

During which meeting did wartime allies attempt to produce agreement on the unification of Germany but ultimately failed?

What is meant by the term the iron curtain?

What term describes the competitive buildup of weapons systems?