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Brooks
World History
Unit 9-The Cold War
The Cold War Thaws
Ch. 17.5 Notes
Determining Main Ideas: As you read this section for the first time, take notes to answer these questions.
How did each country try to resist Soviet rule?
1. Hungary
2. Czechoslovakia
What was the foreign policy of each U.S. president?
4. John F. Kennedy
5. Lyndon Johnson
What was the objective of each of the following?
8. détente
9. SALT 1 Treaty
3. China
6. Richard Nixon
7. Ronald Reagan
10. “Star Wars”
Critical Thinking: As you read the section a second time, answer these questions. Be sure you use complete sentences
and support your ideas with examples or details from the reading.
Why was the Soviet Union
determined to keep
Hungary as a satellite?
Why was Nikita
Khrushchev removed from
power in 1964?
Who was the Soviet leader
who “blinked”?
How was the SALT I
Treaty an example of
realpolitik?
Do you think that Robert
McNamara’s view of the
Soviet threat in Cuba was
justified? Explain.
What would have been two
effects of Congress’s
refusal to ratify SALT II
In what ways did Nixon’s
and Reagan’s policies
toward the Soviet Union
differ?
How did SDI increase
world tensions?
Summary Questions
What do you consider to
be the most significant
reason for the collapse of
détente?
What effects did
destalinization have on
Soviet satellite countries?
What changes did
Alexander Dubček seek to
make in Czechoslovakia?
Why was the policy of
brinkmanship replaced?
In view of Soviet postwar
era policies toward
Eastern Europe, what
reasons did people in
Eastern Europe have for
resistance?
Do you think it was a wise
political decision for Nixon
to visit Communist China
and the Soviet Union?
What was the result of
Reagan’s move away from
détente?
Cold War Propaganda
Directions: Create a movie poster for a film about a key Cold War event in the space below. The film could be a
documentary, a drama, or a satire; your poster should reflect the tone of the film. Your poster should have the name of
the field, a slogan or tagline, and it should make it perfectly clear which event the film is based on.