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C-33 S-5: The Cold War Thaws
• The Cold War began to thaw as the
superpowers entered into an era of
uneasy diplomacy
• The United States and the countries of
the former Soviet Union continue to
cooperate and maintain a cautious
peace.
Khrushchev’s policy of destalinization
• Destalinization (dē-stä'lĭ-nĭ-zā'shən)
• n. The process of discrediting and eliminating
the political policies, methods, and personal
image of Joseph Stalin.
Brezhnev and the Revolt in
Czechoslovakia
détente
• Détente (dā-tänt', -täNt')
n. A relaxing or easing, as of tension between
rivals.
• A policy toward a rival nation or bloc
characterized by increased diplomatic,
commercial, and cultural contact and a desire
to reduce tensions, as through negotiation or
talks.
Nixon: first American president to
visit Communist China
Reagan and “Star Wars”
Extended Range
Interceptor (ERINT)
launch from White
Sands Missile
Range.
4 m (13 ft) diameter web deployed by
Homing Overlay Experiment
An artist's concept of a Space Laser
Satellite Defense System, 1984
An artist's concept of a ground / spacebased hybrid laser weapon, 1984.
The USA and USSR were the two superpowers
during the Cold War. Here Ronald Reagan and
Mikhail Gorbachev meet in 1985
Important Facts
• The Cold War began to thaw as the
superpowers entered into an era of
uneasy diplomacy
• The United States and the countries of
the former Soviet Union continue to
cooperate and maintain a cautious
peace.
C-33 Important Facts
The policy of ________ was
manly intended to reduce
Cold War tensions.
detente
Who proposed to the
American people the
program called
Star Wars?
Ronald Reagan
The first American
president to visit
Communist China
was?
Richard Nixon
The Cold War Thaws
• The Cold War began to thaw as the
superpowers entered into an era of
uneasy diplomacy
• The United States and the countries of
the former Soviet Union continue to
cooperate and maintain a cautious
peace.