Cold War: Easing of Tension

Review of COLD WAR leaders:Use this image for help with the matching activity and get further information about the leaders Cold War Leadership Match the US leader with the USSR leader that was in power during the same time. Use the above image to help you. Truman Stalin Kennedy Khrushchev Nixon Brezhnev Reagan Gorbachev Leaders of the Cold War Match each leader to events to which he is associated. Truman Policy of Containment Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Nixon Ended American involvement in Vietnam War Reagan Wanted the Berlin Wall torn down Click the link above to read about the Arms Race. Then answer the questions below. CLICK HERE - ARMS RACE Explain Mutual Assured Destruction in your own words. Explain Detente. What were the SALT treaties? What does SALT stand for? Détente under Nixon Watch the video to complete the activity below. Détente under Nixon Put the following events in the order they happened according to the video. 1 Detente created a framework for cooperation between the US and the Soviet Union 2 Nixon symbolized detente by visiting Communist China 3 Nixon was welcomed by both the Germans and the Soviets to visit 4 Nixon signed the first ever agreements to limit nuclear weapons called SALT. This represented a mutual effort towards cooperation. 5 Nixon went on TV and said, "Our goal should be discourage aggression in other parts of the world." Ping Pong Diplomacy: Artifacts from the Historic 1971 U.S. Table Tennis Trip to China Read about the topic at the link above. Then answer the questions below. CLICK HERE - Ping Pong Diplomacy Explain Ping Pong Diplomacy in your own words. How did the encounter between Cowan and Zedong begin communications between the two countries? Click the link above to read about the war. Then answer the questions below. CLICK HERE - Soviet-Afghanistan War What were the Afghanistan soldiers who were fighting the Soviet Union called? DRA Afghanistan Revolutionary Army Mujahideen Freedom Fighters What made the war difficult for the Soviet Union army? The Afghanis were fighting for their homeland The mountains provided lots of good places to hide The terrain was difficult and the Soviet army did not have the equipment for it All of the above What did the United States boycott in 1980 in order to protest the war? The World Cup The Olympics The World Series The UEFA Cup When did the Soviet Afghanistan War end? 1975 1982 1989 1992 What major superpower supported the Afghanistan rebels with arms including surface-to-air missiles? France Soviet Union China United States Cold War Europe 1991 Europe Compare the two maps above. List FOUR countries that gained independence from the Soviet Union. Study the maps above. What country was reunited by 1991? Study the maps above. Czechoslovakia was dissolved. What TWO countries emerged? Study the maps above. In the 1990's Yugoslavia dissolved into what nations?