The Cold War Thaws Terms and Names Nikita Khrushchev Leader of the Soviet Union After Stalin Leonid Brezhnev Soviet Leader After Khrushchev John F

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Name ______Class ______Date ______Restructuring the Postwar World Section 5 The Cold War Thaws Terms and Names Nikita Khrushchev Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin Leonid Brezhnev Soviet leader after Khrushchev John F. Kennedy President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 Lyndon Johnson President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 détente Policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers Richard M. Nixon President of the United States from 1969 to 1974 SALT Talks to limit nuclear arms in the United States and the Soviet Union Ronald Reagan President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

Before You Read In the last section, you read about Cold War struggles around the world. In this section, you will read about the major events of the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1980s.

As You Read Use an outline to organize main ideas and details about the Cold War thaw.

SOVIET POLICY IN EASTERN in power. In 1964, Leonid Brezhnev EUROPE AND CHINA (Page 988) replaced Krushchev. When How did the Soviets keep control Czechoslovakians began to reform their over Eastern Europe? Communist government in 1968, Nikita Khrushchev became the Soviet Brezhnev sent in tanks to stop them. leader after Stalin died in 1953. Krushchev The Soviets did not have the same began a process of “destalinization.” This control over their larger neighbor, China. meant getting rid of Stalin’s memory. Although the Soviet Union and China Krushchev also believed that the Soviet enjoyed friendly relations at first, they Union should have “peaceful competition” gradually grew apart. The split became so with the capitalist nations. wide that the Soviet Union and China In Eastern Europe, many people still sometimes fought along their border. The resented Soviet rule. Eastern Europeans two nations now have a peaceful took part in protest movements against relationship. Soviet control. In 1956, protesters and the army overthrew the Communist government of Hungary. Khrushchev sent Soviet tanks to put the Communists back

1. In what two European countries did treaty to limit the number of nuclear the Soviets put down revolts against missiles each country could have. Soviet control? The United States retreated from détente when the Soviet Union invaded ______Afghanistan in 1979. In 1981, Ronald Reagan, a fierce anti-Communist, became ______president. He proposed a costly anti- missile defense system to protect America ______against Soviet missiles. It was never put ______into effect. But it remained a symbol of U.S. anti-Communist feelings. Margaret ______Thatcher was the British prime minister. She was a strong supporter of Reagan’s FROM BRINKMANSHIP TO policies. DÉTENTE; THE COLLAPSE OF The Soviets grew angry over American DÉTENTE (Pages 990–991) support for the rebels fighting against the Did tensions between the United Communists in Nicaragua. Tensions States and the Soviet Union change? between the United States and the Soviet Tensions between the Soviets and the Union increased until 1985 when a new United States had been very high during leader came to power in the Soviet Union. the presidency of John F. Kennedy. They 2. Name two actions or events that got in remained high during the presidency of the way of détente. Lyndon Johnson. The war in Vietnam helped keep relations tense. ______In the early 1970s, the United States ______began to follow a policy called détente under President Richard M. Nixon. ______Détente was a policy of lowering tensions between the superpowers. Nixon made ______visits to both Communist China and the Soviet Union. In 1972, he and Brezhnev ______held meetings called the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT).They signed a

As you read this section, take notes to answer the questions.

How did each country try to resist Soviet rule?

1. Hungary 2. Czechoslovakia 3. China

What was the foreign policy of each U.S. president?

4. John F. Kennedy 5. Lyndon Johnson 6. Richard Nixon 7. Ronald Reagan

What was the objective of each of the following?

8. détente 9. SALT I Treaty 10. “Star Wars”