Lesson 1503 of 1524
Cold War Conflicts
The Soviet Union responded by forming the Warsaw Pact with the Eastern Bloc countries of Eastern Europe
Practice this chapterThe Soviet Union responded by forming the Warsaw Pact with the Eastern Bloc countries of Eastern Europe Following World War II, the two remaining superpowers—the United States and the Soviet Union—entered the Cold War, an ideological contest in which each side competed for supremacy through the use of economic aid…
Foreign policy was focused on containment, preventing the influence of the Soviet Union and the ideology of communism from spreading beyond Eastern Europe. A major test of each nation’s resolve to defeat the other came with the Soviet Union’s blockade of West Berlin in 1948-1949.
Cold War — a contest for ideological, social, economic, technological, and military supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union. containment — the West’s Cold War policy goal of confining communism to the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe. Warsaw Pact — a military and political alliance among the communist nations of Eastern Europe. bloc — a group of countries united for a common purpose.
Worked example
What does “Cold War” mean in Cold War Conflicts?
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for Cold War.
- 2The book says: a contest for ideological, social, economic, technological, and military supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 3Do not use the meaning of containment. That term means the West’s Cold War policy goal of confining communism to the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe.
Result: a contest for ideological, social, economic, technological, and military supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for Cold War.
Do not swap Cold War and containment. Cold War means a contest for ideological, social, economic, technological, and military supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union. containment means the West’s Cold War policy goal of confining communism to the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe.
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