1. Take out your homework!

2. Monday, April 8th HW: Have great day!
Aim: How did the Cold War cool down?
Do Now: Answer the following question
When businesses compete for customers – what strategies might they use to lure customers to their business?

3. What might superpowers do to win the loyalty of poor nations?

4. The superpowers competed for influence in nonaligned countries.
Nonaligned countries did not take sides
during the Cold War.

5. Nikita Khrushchev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1953.

6. Destalinization: policy of purging the Soviet Union of Stalin’s memory.

7. Leonid Brezhnev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1964.

8. Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev Doctrine: Soviet Union had the right to prevent its satellite countries from rejecting communism.

9. Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

10. Détente: policy of easing tensions between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
No we cannot watch Terry Tate!

11. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I Treaty in 1972.
SALT I Treaty limited the number of missiles each country could have.

12. SUMMARY Détente refers to
a. a relaxation of tension between opposing countries
b. liberalization in Soviet domestic policy
c. Gorbachev’s economic reform efforts
d. Truman’s policy to stop the spread of communism